Credits: Helen Hopekirk (arranger), Lachlan MacBean (translator)
Instrumentation: voice • piano
Key: F#m
Time signature: 3/4
Tempo indication: Rather slow and steadily
Notes: Old Gaelic Air from the "Celtic Lyre"
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