Oft, in the Stilly Night – Traditional (Irish)

Mountain dulcimer solo (D-A-D tuning) with optional lyrics • Arrangement of an Irish air with lyrics by Thomas Moore • Published in 1818 by Irish composer John Andrew Stevenson as a Scottish air in a volume of "Popular National Airs" from several countries, but without a clear Scottish source • Popular during the nineteenth century, and continued to be widely known and sung during the first decades of the twentieth (published in many books for school and family use)