Somehow, the Irish people help make this world a little easier to live in. They give us songs we can live in, fly in, drown in, share the cares and joys of the world in. They're masters at making melody of the human condition, whatever it may be. Jo-Ellen and Ed Bosson and Helen Stokoe gave me this lovely tune a few years ago on a porch in the hills of New York. Jo-Ellen says they learned it from a record of the Chieftains, where it is called "Eibhif Gheai Chiuin Ni Chearbhaill" and ascribed to the collection of Edward Bunting (published 1809).