| TYPE | 3 - Complex Melody |
| TOPIC | Napoleonic |
| TUNE STRUCTURE | abcb |
| VERSE STRUCTURE | 3v 4l |
| TIME SIGNATURE |
68
|
| KEY SIGNATURE | ♯♯ |
| TONAL CENTRE | A |
| INCIPIT | GAGGDEFGFEGE |
| GENRE | Ballad |
| TEXT SOURCE | P.W. Joyce, Old Irish Folk Music (Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1909), no.407 |
| TUNE SOURCE | as above |
| FIRST LINE | Ye sons of old Ireland, I'm sorry to hear |
| NOTATED INCIPIT |
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| A song recalled by Joyce from his childhood. He states that there was an earlier printing of the air but this does not seem to survive. The name given to the air may suggest the refrain of the Irish language song 'Cad é sín don te sin', although this is sung to a different air today. Terry Moylan (2000) sets the tune in the key of D. |
