Annotation:Why do You Leave Me?

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WHY DO YOU LEAVE ME? Irish, Slow Air (4/4 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.

Source for notated version: Patrick MacDowell, "the distinguished sculptor: born in Belfast 1799: died in 1870" (Joyce).

Printed sources: Clinton (Gems of Ireland: 200 Airs), 1841; No. 194, p. 101. Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Songs), 1909; No. 512, p. 278.

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