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BLACK CLOAKS TO COVER BODDY. AKA - "Lament for Gerald (The)." Irish, Air (6/8 time). E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part.

Source for notated version: Dr. O'Sullivan (Co. Kerry) [Petrie].

Printed sources: P.M. Haverty (One Hundred Irish Airs vol. 2), 1858; No. 160, p. 72. Petrie (Ancient Music of Ireland), 1855;

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