X:1
T:Kerry for me
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air
N:"Moderate: time well marked"
S:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:G
D|G>AG FGA|B>AG ADE|=FDB, CB,C|DGA B>cB/A/|
G>AG FGA|B>AG ADE|=FDB, CB,C|DGG G2||
B/c/|ded cBA|GAG F<D B/c/|ded cBA|GFG A>cB/A/|
G>AG FGA|B>AG ADE|=FDB, CB,C|DGG G2||
KERRY FOR ME. AKA and see "Cahirciveen." Irish, Air (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Cazden (et al, 1982) collected a minor-key variant of this tune in New York's Catskill Mountains as the song "The Cumberland Crew."
Additional notes Source for notated version : - "...copied from a Munster MS. lent me by the late John O'Daly, the Irish publisher of Anglesea St., Dublin" (Joyce).
Printed sources : - Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 191, pp. 94-95.
