Ricardus’s six comments

Greetings - couldn’t find the tune easily here but managed to get it on abc notation site more…

Lovely tune - any idea re/ guitar chords? more…

Thinking on it, the version in Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland should not be shown in the key of G, but should be in D, which would make the mode E Dorian. Makes sense imo. more…

Seems to me that the tune in question comes under the title “The Dear Irish Boy”. more…

The mode may be E Aoelian. It seems to me that Cillian plays it on the Lunasa/RTE album in A Dorian (?) more…

Hi to all, just picked up this thread; I play this on low whistle and found the melody (in key of G but starts/ends on note E, so a mode of some sort?) in a book entitled “Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland” by Tomas O Canainn (Ossian). more…