My True Love Has Gone From Me

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Capt. F. O'Neill

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Air One title Only 1 transcription Has lots of stepwise movement Has some stepwise movement major G 4/4 Has source text No chords explore more...

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X:230
T:My True Love Has Gone From Me
M:4/4
L:1/8
S:Capt. F. O'Neill
R:Air
K:G
"Moderato con expressivo"Bd|e3 d g2 B2|c4 edBA|B2 AB G2 G2|G4-G2 ga|
b2 bc' b2 ag|a3 c' b2 ab|g3 g f3 e|d4-d2||ga|b2 bc' b2 ag|a3 c' b2 ab|
g3 g f3 e|d4-d2 Bd|e3 d g2 B2|c4 edBA|B2 AB G2 G2|G4-G2||
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% This air like scores of others was unconsciously memorized in my
% boyhood days at Tralibane some three miles southeast of Bantry,
% West Cork. All that I can remember now of the ballad sung to it is the
% distich:
%     "My true love he has gone from me, and I can't tell how far
%       Eighteen hundred thousand miles , on board of a man of war"
% It is not likely that the poetaster in equalizing his meter realized
% the absurdity of a voyage equal to seventy-two times the
% circumference of the earth.

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