The comments here do convolute the story behind the tune somewhat. It is a compendium of songs (mostly) relating to various place names in Ireland. The tape with this tune on is no longer available but there is an equivalent CD “All Ireland Songs & Heroes” on Dara label GAELD1. This variation prints out accurately on ABC2Win. This, of course, is only one of many ways in which this tune may be phrased and ornamented. the bowing), to sometimes bow across the beat, so as to get variety in the way these sections are played. Where sections of the tune reoccur I have changed the phrasing (i.e. Here follows a variation in which I have added ornaments (the first one of which is in O’Neill) and phrasing, which indicates the bowing. In the only bar where the high E occurs (bar 3 in the B part) as an unaccented passing note I suggest it is best played on the A string with the 4th finger. I have transposed it down into D for a number of reasons: to take advantage of the increased sonority of the fiddle in that key, to have a lovely descent onto the G string at the end of an important phrase in the A part, and to avoid using the E string, which, to my mind, is too strident for this gentle slow tune. It is in O’Neill’s 1850, as #49, but in F. The Irish title means “The Mourne Shore”, and the tune is also known as “The Maids of the Mourne Shore”. The two parts of the tune are not repeated. I suggest it should be played no faster than 1/4=90. This is probably the origin of the tune title on the tape. In fact, it is not a reel at all it is a slow air based on an 18c song “The Rambling Boys of Pleasure”, the first line of which is “It’s down in Sally’s garden O, there hangs rosies, three”. I eventually tracked it down in O’Neill, but not under that name (details below). On the tape it is called “Sally Gardens” but it is not the fast Sally Gardens reel generally played in sessions. I heard this beautiful tune played by the Celtic Orchestra on an oldish compendium tape my wife has.
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