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The mournful cry of this creature can still be heard in the remote country places of Ireland. This strange air of Ed's takes us back to an earlier age when one could wander through the night fields of Ireland and hear the dark sigh of the solitary corncrake.

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X: 127
T:The Corncrake
R:Air
C:Ed Reavy
M:4/4
L:1/8
Z:Joe Reavy
N:The mournful cry of this
N:creature can still be heard
N:in the remote country
N:places of Ireland.  This
N:strange air of Ed's takes
N:us back to an earlier age
N:when one could wander
N:through the night fields of
N:Ireland and hear the dark
N:sigh of the solitary corncrake.
K:G
d>c|B G3 (3GFG BB|c2 (3cBc d g3|
M:2/4
g>f d3|
M:4/4
cB G F3 d>c|B G3 (3GFG BB|c2 (3cBc d g3|
M:2/4
gf d2|
M:4/4
cB G2 G4||
M:3/4
e=f f2 c3c2 de/2f/2 g2|gf d2 c2|BG/2D/2 =F d>c|
M:4/4
B G3 (3GFG BB|c2 (3cBc d g3|
M:2/4
gf d2|
M:4/4
cB G2 G2||

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