X: 1
T:Captain O'Kane
T:Wounded Hussar, The
M:6/8
L:1/8
S:McGoun's Repository 1803
R:Air
K:G
"Moderato"E/2D/2|B,EF G2 F/2E/2|F/2G/2A/2G/2F/2E/2 DEF|
GBG B/2A/2G/2F/2E/2D/2|B,EE E2 E/2D/2|B,EF G2 F/2E/2|
F/2G/2A/2G/2F/2E/2 DEF|GBB B/2A/2G/2F/2E/2D/2|
B,EE E2||E/2F/2|GBB B2 A/2G/2|FAA A2 d/2c/2|
Be^d e>fg|Be^d e2 e/2f/2|g>fe d>cB|AFd DEF|
GBG B/2A/2G/2F/2E/2D/2|B,EE E2||
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% The earliest setting of this rare composition which the compiler can
% trace is that found in Vol.3 of Aird's Selections of Scotch, English,
% Irish and Foreign Airs, printed in 1788. Slightlly disguised as
% "Captain Oakhain: A Favorite Irish Tune", it appears in McGoun's
% Repository of Scots and Irish Airs, Strathspeys, Reels, etc. Glasgow
% 1803", but it is not numbered among the Bunting or Petrie
% Collections. "The Wounded Hussar" we learn from Alexander
% Campbell's song of that name printed with the music in Smith's Irish
% Minstrel, Edinburgh 1825" was Captain Henry O'Kain who died of
% his wounds on "the banks fo the dark rolling Danube".
% Included as one of Carolan's compositions in Hardiman's Irish
% Minstrelsy, 1831" the author adds: "Capt. O'Kane or O'Cahan of a
% distinguished family, a sporting Irishman well know in Antrim in his
% day as "Slasher O'Kane'". There can be no doubt that he was
% the hero of Campbell's song. The Wounded Hussar is also included in
% Serenne's "Songs of Ireland without words, Edinburgh 1854".