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The South Wind

Traditional

Style
Celtic
Tradition
Irish
Form
Waltz
Key
G
Level
2
Played on
Voice

In the public domain. Source

Music

100bpm

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History

In Irish it is "An Ghaoth Aneas," a song in which the poet asks the south wind to carry a kiss home to his own country. Edward Bunting printed the air as "I Have a Secret to Tell Thee" and credited it to Domhnall Meidhreach Mac Conmara of County Clare.

Other sources credit the words to Donal Meirgeach Mac Conmara, an 18th century poet from west Mayo who went into exile in Tipperary, with Mayo as the home he longs for. The Chieftains recorded it on Chieftains 3, and Seán Ó Riada's Ceoltoiri Cualann played it too. It is often played as a waltz.

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