SWEET COLLEEN RUE
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Rhythm: song
Key: G
Meter: C
Book: Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
History: I learned this air from hearing it often sung at home when I was a child.
I find an almost identical setting in Forde's Collection, given to him by
Mr. Deasy of Clonakilty Co. Cork.
Words:
One evening fresh and fair as I roved to take air,
Down by the pleasant water my way I did pursue;
Advancing by its side where the stream did gently glide,
'Twas there I first espied my sweet Colleen Rue. as I roved to take air,
Key: G
Meter: C
Book: Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
History: I learned this air from hearing it often sung at home when I was a child.
I find an almost identical setting in Forde's Collection, given to him by
Mr. Deasy of Clonakilty Co. Cork.
Words:
One evening fresh and fair as I roved to take air,
Down by the pleasant water my way I did pursue;
Advancing by its side where the stream did gently glide,
'Twas there I first espied my sweet Colleen Rue. as I roved to take air,
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