The Black Slender Boy

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Dr. Petrie gives three settings for this beautiful air in his Ancient Music of Ireland: all instrumental. I give here, from memory, the Munster vocal rendering--very much simpler--as I heard it from the old singers hundreds of times.

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X:102
T:An Bouchail Caol Dubh
T:The Black Slender Boy
B:Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
R:song air
L:1/8
N:  Dr. Petrie gives three settings for this beautiful air in his Ancient
N:Music of Ireland: all instrumental.  I give here, from memory, the Munster
N:vocal rendering--very much simpler--as I heard it from the old singers
N:hundreds of times.
A:Munster
O:Irish
M:3/4
K:D
DE|\
FG A2 GA/B/|FG/E/ F>E DD/E/|FG A>G EF|DD D2 DE|
FG A2 d/>c/A/G/|FG/>E/ F>E DD/E/|F/E/F/G/ A>d c/A/G/E/|DD D2||FG|
Ad/>e/ f2 ed|d/e/f/d/ e>d c/A/G/F/|\
GA/B/ =c2 {A}d/c/A/G/|Ad3/4{f}e// d3 d/e/|
fe d>c AG|FG/>E/ F>E DD/E/|F/E/F/G/ A>d c/A/G/E/|DD D2||

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