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The Blackbird (Air)
Irish slow air · 2/4 · D major · Suggested tempo: 1/4 = 64 BPM
The second slow-air setting of The Blackbird in O'Neill's collection.
The source melody is shown with a simple left-hand bass and chord accompaniment created for this site, for piano or chromatic button accordion.
Transpose Chord symbols are suggested by fisarmonica.org and are not part of the source score.
Source: Francis O'Neill (ed.), O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1903), no. 200, The Blackbird (second setting). IMSLP's 1903 scan
Source and playback
The public-domain instrumental melody is used. Ornaments and pickups are simplified; accompaniment is new.