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X:1
T:Black Slender Boy [4]
T:An bouchail caol dubh
M:3/4
L:1/8
R:Air
N:"Slow and with great expression"
S:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909)
K:D
DE|FG A2 GA/G/|FG/E/ F>E DD/E/|FG A>G EF|DD D2 DE|
FG A2 d/>c/A/G/|FG/>E/ F>E DD/E/|F/E/F/G/ A>d c/A/G/E/|DD D2||FG|
Ad/>e/ f2 ed|d/e/f/d/ e>d c/A/G/F/|GA/B/ =c2 {A}d/c/A/G/|Ad/>{f}e/ d3 d/e/|
fe d>c AG|FG/>E/ F>E DD/E/|F/E/F/G/ A>d c/A/G/E/|DD D2||
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BLACK SLENDER BOY [4]. AKA and see "Dark Slender Boy." AKA - "An Bouchail Caol Dubh." Irish, Slow Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Dr. Petrie gives three settings of this beautiful air in his Ancient Music of Ireland: all instrumental. I give here, from memory, the Munster vocal rendering--very much simpler--as I heard it from the old singers hundreds of times" (Joyce).
Printed source: Joyce (Old Irish Folk Music and Song), 1909; No. 102, p. 52.
