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T:Never Was Piping So Gay
C:Ed Reavy
R:reel
S:Tommy McCarthy
D:Stockton's Wing: Light in the Western Sky
Z:id:hn-reel-622
Z:transcribed by henrik.norbeck@mailbox.swipnet.se
M:C|
K:G
% TUNEdb Number 1184
G,2B,D GBdB|cafd cAFA|G2BG DGBG|AF~F2 AcBA|
G2BG DGBc|dged ^cdef|~g3d ^cdBG|1 FGAF GEDB,:|2 FGAF G2Bd||
|:~g3d ^cdBG|DGBd cAFA|GBBA BABc|dged ^cdef|
~g3d ^cdBG|DGBd cAFA|BG~G2 cA~A2|1 BdcA G2Bd:|2 BdcA GEDB,||
"variations"
G,2B,D GBdB|cafd cAFA|G2BG DGBG|AF~F2 BFAF|
G2BG DGBc|dged ^cdef|~g3d ~c3A|1 FGAF GEDB,:|2 FGAF G2Bd||
|:~g3d ^cdBG|DGBd cAFA|GBBA BccB|cafd ^cdef|
~g3d ^cdBG|DGBd cAFA|~B3d cAFA|1 BdcA G2Bd:|2 BdcA GEDB,||

Submitted by : kkrell

Collected by : Henrik Norbeck

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T:Never Was Piping So Gay
M:2/2
L:1/8
C:Ed Reavy
S:The Collected Compositions of Ed Reavy
R:reel
N:The concluding line of O'Driscoll's refrain in Yeats' poem, "The Host
N:of
N:he air".
N:O'Driscoll dreamed that his wife Bridget was taken by the Host as he
N:was
N:laying harmlessly at
N:cards with "the merry old men." When O'Driscoll awoke from his dream,
N:all that remained of the dream was the strange unearthly sound of a
N:pipe
N:piping away in the distant air- "And never was piping so sad, And
N:never was piping so gay."
Z:Joseph Reavy
K:G
% TUNEdb Number 11026
DB,||:G, B,D GBdB|cafd cAFA|G2 BG DGBG|AF (3FFF dFcF|G2 BG
DGB,D|Aafd ^cdef|gfgd cBcA
|1FGAc BGDB,:|2FGAc BG G2||gfgd ^cdBG|FGBd cAFA|GB (3cBA BcdB|cafd ^cde
f|gfgd ^cdBG|FGBd
cAFA|BG (3GGG AF (3FFF|BdcA G4||gfgd ^cdBG|FGBd cAFA|
GB (3cBA BcdB|cafd ^cdef|gbaf gd^cd|BGFG cAFA|BG (3FFF AF (3FFF|BdcA G2|
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Never Was Piping So Gay