Annotation:Sweet Beaulieu Grove
X:1 T:Sweet Beaulieu Grove M:C L:1/8 R:Air S:O’Neill’s Irish Music (1915) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:Cmin G2 | B2 cB G2E2 | FE DB, B,2 CD | E2 FE C2C2 | C4 z2 CD | EDEF G2 FE | FEFG B2G2 | G2 cB G2=B2 | c4z2 || CD | EDEF G2 FE | FEFG B2 GG | G2 cB G2 =B2 | c4z2 ec | BcBG F2 EF | ECB,G, B,2 CD | E2 GF E2C2 | C6 ||
SWEET BEAULIEU GROVE. Irish, Air (4/4 time). C Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. See note for “annotation:Enniskillen Dragoon (1) (The)” for brief discussion of the structure of this tune and partial list of others in this class.
There is a Beaulieu Grove in Monmouthshire, Wales, but the title refers one of two places in Ireland, principally a parish in the barony of Ferrard, County Louth.
The first verse of the song begins:
One evening fair, to take the air,
I carelessly did stray;
Down by the Boyne, I did incline,
To bend my roving way;
Where I espied, viewing the tide,
All alone as she did rove,
A lovely fair, beyond compare,
Down by sweet Beaulieu Grove.
