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Sheet Music for "Beside the River"Beside the RiverCois abhannAir35



BESIDE THE RIVER (Cois Abhann). Irish, Air. A Dorian (Joyce): D Minor (Goodman). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Mr. Pigot took this down from O'Neill (a piper) of Tipperary" (Joyce). The tune also appears in the mid-19th century music manuscript collection of Canon James Goodman (County Cork).

Additional notes

Source for notated version: - The music manuscripts collection of John Edward Pigot (1822–1871) [Goodman, Joyce].

Printed sources : - Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 811, pp. 393-394.

Recorded sources: -



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