Shuseen Bane
| TYPE | 3 - Complex Melody |
| TOPIC | Love |
| TUNE STRUCTURE | A12 B8 |
| VERSE STRUCTURE | 3v 4l |
| TIME SIGNATURE | C |
| KEY SIGNATURE | ♭♭ |
| TONAL CENTRE | G |
| INCIPIT | GGF♯GF♯EF♯EF♯EDB, |
| GENRE | Amhrán Mór |
| TEXT SOURCE | Bunting Notebooks. Special Collections, QUB Library. MS 4.10 99 |
| TUNE SOURCE | A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes (Dublin: John and William Neal, 1724), p.21 |
| FIRST LINE | Cuirim díbirt ar an aoise a choidhche is go bráth |
| NOTATED INCIPIT |
Sughuisín BánCuirim díbirt ar an aoise a choidhche is go bráth,Is craobhsgaoileadh air as taobh ó ‘s fíochmuil domh a rádh;Dá bfuighin faoidhche naoi n-aoidhche le n-aideamhuin mo grádh,Chioscfin ciocras go faobhrach faoi an tsughuisín bháin.Anns an ord soin ‘s é is brón domh ná bhfuigheam go bráth,A bheith ‘suigh a gcóisir na hóige ná a gcumon le mnáibh;Sul a dtoirlingin dan mbánchnuc go m’féidir léi a rádhGo bhfuair sí cóireamh fá dhó uam faoi an tsuighsín bháin.Ni chuirim cáin ar na mnáibh feasta go bráth ans an oidhcheA bhéaradh fasgadh da bán-chrios an aice le mo chroidhe;‘Chuireadh lámh dheas na mbán-mbos thoram ‘s mé ‘mo luighe,Is ‘bhéaradh fáilte agus grádh dhomh faoi an tsuighsín bhuidhe.QUB Bunting MS 10/99 (Suggested in Nicholas Carolan, 2010, p.95)
The White BlanketI banish age for once and for all, And I denounce it because it makes me angry to say so; If I got a space of nine nights to tell my love, I would satisfy my desire keenly under the white blanket. In that position it is a cause of sorrow to me that I won’t ever be, To get to be sitting in a party of young people or in company with women; Before she descends from the fair hill may she be able to say That she was well dealt with twice by me under the white blanket. I don’t ever blame the women in the night Who used to give the shelter of their white skins alongside my heart; Who used put a fine white-palmed hand over me as I lay, And who would give me welcome and love under the yellow blanket.(Translation in Nicholas Carolan, 2010, p.95)