Carollans Devotion
| TYPE | 3 - Complex Melody |
| TOPIC | Praise |
| TUNE STRUCTURE | A8 B24 |
| VERSE STRUCTURE | 10 lines surviving |
| TIME SIGNATURE | 34 |
| KEY SIGNATURE | ♭ |
| TONAL CENTRE | G |
| INCIPIT | GF♯EDDEF♯EDC,B♭,B♭, |
| GENRE | Amhrán Mór |
| TEXT SOURCE | James Hardiman, Irish Minstrelsy, or, Bardic Remains of Ireland (London: J. Robbins, 1831), liv |
| TUNE SOURCE | A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes (Dublin: John and William Neal, 1724), p.22 |
| FIRST LINE | On a fair Sunday morning devoted to be |
| NOTATED INCIPIT | |
| Joseph Cooper Walker attributed the song to Carolan, and claimed that this had been authenticated by Charles O’Conor of Belanagare, who identified the subject of the poem as a ‘Miss Fetherson’ of Co. Longford. Only part of the song-text survives, recorded by Hardiman (1836) and the same text survives in Gaelic translation in a RIA manuscript (MS 23 F 22:54). For further details concerning this song, see Nicholas Carolan, ed. Celebrated Irish Tunes (1986; 2010 revised ed.), p.95. | |
Carrollans DevotionOn a fair Sunday morning devoted to be,Attentive to a sermon that was ordered for me,I met a fresh rose on the road by decree, And though Mass was my notion, my devotion was she.Welcome, fair lilly, white and red,Welcome was every word we said; Welcome, bright angel of noble degree,I wish you would love, and that I were with thee.I pray don't frown at me with mouth or with eye -So I told the fair maiden, with heart full of glee,Though Mass was my notion,My devotion was she.Transcription from Carolan (2010).