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Info …
I pilfered this tune from Brian McNamara & Tim Collins’ CD "Reed Only" … And If you don’t know your Gmajor scale, the B-part will teach you all you need to know …
More Info:
http://www.irishtune.info/tune/4942/
Enjoy …
O’Neill’s 1850, #480
… is in F (like the transcription here, there is an interesting emphasis on the 6th—the minor tonic—at the phrase endings). I think I prefer it in that key. In any case, it gives an option with historical precedent.
Goat’s Song
This is my arrangement as a jig of a tune in O’Neill’s "Music of Ireland" (#480), where it appears in D minor. Seems too good a tune to languish in "The 1850" Airs section!