Annotation:Groves of Blarney (The)
X:1 T:Groves of Blarney, The T:Last Rose, The M:3/4 L:1/8 R:Air Q:”Lento” B:William Forde – 300 National Melodies of the British Isles (c. 1841, p. 4, No. 10) B: https://www.itma.ie/digital-library/text/300-national-melodies-of-the-british-isles.-vol.-3-100.-irish-airs N:William Forde (c.1795–1850) was a musician, music collector and scholar from County Cork Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:F F>>G|A2f2 d>>c|c2-A2 F>>G|A2 B>A {A}G>>F|F4 F>>G| A2f2 d>>c|c2-A2 F>>G|A2 B>>A {A}G>>F|F4||(c>A)| f2f2 e {e}d>>c|(c2A2) (c>A)|f2 f>ed^c|d>~e !fermata!f2 F>G| A2f2 d>>c|c2A2 F>>G|A2 B>A {A}G>>F|F4||
GROVES OF BLARNEY, THE (Coillte Blarnaig). AKA and see "Last Rose of Summer (The)," "Sad and Luckless Was the Season." Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). F Major (Forde): G Major (O'Neill, Roche): B Flat Major (Clinton). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB (Forde, O'Neill): ABCDEF (Roche). "Groves of Blarney" is a song by Alfred Milliken. The melody is said to have been borrowed from a seventeenth-century harp tune. Reputedly, Thomas Moore adapted Milliken's melody for his song "Last Rose of Summer (The)," published in Irish Melodies. O'Neill says this song is a parody of "Castle Hyde." Clinton's (1841) setting is for the flute.
