Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 883 (I Wish I Never Saw You)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Reel24AABG Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of I Wish I Never Saw You
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of my transcription of how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording IDM 2 (details in the Discography below).

Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
I Wish I Never Saw You / Mo Thrua go bfaca Mé Ariamh Thú / My Love and I in the Garden / My Love & I in the Garden / The Tubercurry Reel [The Tubbercurry Reel] / Scotch Mary (2nd in set Lime Stone Rock on IDM 2) (also 1st part singled; also both parts doubled, also with a 3rd part)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc. They are listed in order of when they were recorded.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
19233#2[IDM 2] various. Past Masters of Irish Dance Music. View album details
197821#1[KKgn] Kevin Keegan. The Music of Kevin Keegan. Kevin Keegan (accordion).View album details
~1978A.1#2[NF] Joe Shannon, Johnny McGreevy. The Noonday Feast. Joe Shannon (pipes), Johnny McGreevy (fiddle).View album details
~19798#3[MB 1] Mary Bergin. Feadóga Stáin. Traditional Irish Music on the Tin Whistle. Mary Bergin (whistle).View album details
19836#2[FG 2] Frankie Gavin. Croch Suas É. Up and Away. Frankie Gavin (flute, fiddle, whistle, accordion).View album details
~20051.20#1[WFO 3] various. Wooden Flute Obsession 3. View album details

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune under any title whatsoever – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are very similar to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

As tune #167 in volume 1 of [R] Francis Roche. The Roche Collection of Traditional Irish Music. 3 vols. [available]
As tune #33 in volume 3 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As reel #184 in [HN] Henrik Norbeck. Henrik Norbeck's Abc Tunes. [available]
As reel #27 in [JKg 3] Josephine Keegan. A Drop in the Ocean. Traditional Irish Tunes Collected by Josephine Keegan. [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1923
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