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Buachaill on Eirne

Buachaill on Eirne

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This is the air to an Irish song about a young man from from Lough Erne whose love of alcohol and women robs him of any desire to work or even keep a house. The same tune was used in the 1960s by Scottish writer W Gordon Smith for his popular song Come By the Hills.




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