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youth. Of the words I can recall the following three verses:

I learned both the air and the words of this song at home in early

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X:53
T:One Evening Fair
B:Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
R:song
H:  I learned both the air and the words of this song at home in early
H:youth.  Of the words I can recall the following three verses:
W:One evening fair as I roved out down by a river side,
W:I heard a lovely maid complain--the tears rolled from her eyes:
W:"It was a cold and stormy night"--those sad words she did say--
W:"When my love went on the raging main, bound for Amerikay.
W:
W:"My love he was a fisherman, his age was scarce eighteen,
W:"He was a handsome young man as ever yet was seen:
W:"My father he has riches great, and O'Reilly was but poor,
W:"And because he was a fisherman he could not him endure.
W:
W:"Says my mother then to me: `My dear, this case is bad indeed,
W:"`Therefore my loving daughter I hope you will take heed;
W:"`If you be fond of Reilly, let him leave this counterie,
W:"`Your father said his life he'd take, so shun his companie.'"
L:1/8
M:C
Z:Allan Garvin
K:F
"Moderately slow."\
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F2 FD FGA=B|c4 F2 G2|A2 d2 cdef|d6 DE|
F2 FD FGA=B|c4 F2 G2|A2 d2 cdec|(d6 (3A=Bc)|
d2 d2 cA G2|F2 A2 GE D2|E2 GE D2 D2|D6||

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