Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on March 21st 2004 by gian marco.
This tune has been added to 11 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: My Love Is An Arbutus
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: waltz
K: Gmaj
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D2D2EG|A2A2Bc|d2c2B2|A3B/A/ GE|
D2D2EG|A2A2Bc|dB ed cB|A4GA|
Bc d2A2|GA B2 AB|GE D2D2|D4:|AB|
cd e2 dc|Bc d2cB|AG A2^c2|d4dc|
BA G2cB|AG F2GF|EDC2E2|D4|:GA |
Bcd2A2|GAB2AB|GED2D2|D4GE|
D2D2EG|A2A2Bc|d2c2B2|A3B/A/ GE|
D2D2EG|A2A2Bc|dB ed cB|A4GA|
Bc d2A2|GA B2 AB|GE D2D2|D4:|
My Love Is An Arbutus (SLOW AIR)
This tune is not a waltz, but a slow air
Source: Buttons & Bows - jackie daly, seamus & manus mcguire
Transcription. gmp
# Posted on March 21st 2004 by gian marco
Just curious. What is an "Arbutus"? I only ask because in Maryland, it is a name of a town not too far from where I live. I've never heard the word in any other context.
# Posted on March 21st 2004 by Jason G
My Loveīs an Arbutus
An arbutus is a bush or small tree with blossom and fruit.
The song "My Loveīs an Arbutus" was a drawing room favourite many years ago ( long before my time!) when that type of singing was popular. Picture a Victorian family all sitting round the piano.
I heard a recording of it once, but I canīt remember where or when.
Iīd no idea the tune had been recorded as a slow air, but then I havenīt heard the Buttons and Bows album.
A search would probably give the words of the song.
# Posted on March 21st 2004 by murfbox
My Love Is An Arbutus - words of the song
My love's an arbutus
By the borders of Lene,
So slender and shapely
In her girdle of green.
And I measure the pleasure
Of her eye's sapphire sheen
By the blue skies that sparkle
Through the soft branching screen.
But though ruddy the berry
And snowy the flower
That brighten together
The arbutus bower,
Perfuming and blooming
Through sunshine and shower,
Give me her bright lips
And her laugh's pearly dower.
Alas, fruit and blossom
Shall lie dead on the lea,
And Time's jealous fingers
Dim your young charms, Machree.
But unranging, unchanging,
You'll still cling to me,
Like the evergreen leaf
To the arbutus tree . . .
# Posted on March 21st 2004 by gian marco
Thanks for the clarification. Don't know why, but before I knew what an Arbutus was, I was almost thinking the song was a bit farcical. For some reason I was thinking "brute", kinda sounds a little like "arbutus". Ah nevermind
. Definitely makes more sense now.
# Posted on March 22nd 2004 by Jason G
Old Irish Melody
Collected by John Ward, (Chicago) words are attributed to Alfred Perceval Graves. My copy has words for only two verses. And the music is noted in F.
# Posted on March 25th 2004 by windybaer
Hey, Pants, is "Machree" an actual lyric, or should it be "mo chroi"? (Gaelic for "my heart")
# Posted on September 17th 2004 by Kerri Brown
I have no idea, sorry
# Posted on September 17th 2004 by gian marco