X:1
T:Single and Free
M:3/4
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909, p. 213)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:Gmin
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SINGLE AND FREE. Irish, Air (3/4 time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. Collector P.W. Joyce printed the following words with the tune:
One evening last week I walked down by yon bush, I heard two birds singing a blackbird and a thrush; I asked them the reason they sany in such glee, And the answer they gave, they were single and free.
Additional notes
Source for notated version: -
Printed sources : - Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 213, pp. 104-105.
