Heh. One question that just came up here: Can I play a tune called
"Gramachie"? Well, no, I can't, because I can't find it anywhere.
Well, I'll take a stab. Is it this'n?
Regards,
Andrew Kuntz
GRAMACHREE. AKA and see Will you go to Flanders?, The harp that once through Tara's halls, Molly Asthore, Little Molly O, Graidh mo chroidhe, Gramachree Molly. Irish, Air. A tune dating from the time of the Confederation of Kilkenny (1642-1648) as it is alluded to in a pamphlet in Dublin in 1737, and purloined; asserts Flood (1906), by James Oswald in 1742. The song of the above title is by the Rt. Hon. George Ogle (1742-1814), who represented the City of Dublin in Grattan's Parliament and voted against the Union with Britain. ‘Gramachree’ is an Englished version of the Irish “Gra Mo Croi” (Graidh mo chroidhe), or ‘love of my heart.’ The song appears in Songs of the Gael, 1st series (1922), and begins:
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As down by Banna's banks I strayed
One evening in May,
The little birds, in blithest notes
Made vocal every spray.
They sang their little notes of love,
They sung them o'er and o'er.
Ah! Gra Machree ma Cholleen Oge,
'Shee Molly veg Mashtore!
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A noteto the song indicates the editor of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Songsof the Gael was given his verison of the air by a priest who had taken thetune down some fifty years before from "the singing of an old woman inCounty Carlow, who was then nearly a hundred years old. She had learned theversion from her grandmother."
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