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Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 38, 29 March 1935, Page 3

Ross mistakenly wrote it down in four-four instead of three-four time, and that singers since her day have lengthened certain favoured notes so that now the tune will not fit any known, Irish metre. If this is correct, as it probably is, then the "Londonderry Air" is in good company, To be widely known, and known inaccurately, is one of the hall-marks of fame. For instance, Shakespeare wrote of "painting the lily’’-he. never mentioned "‘gilding."" Then, too, is the misquoted: line of Milton’s-**To-morrow to fresh fields and pastures new." Gray accepted a printer’s error in his "Elegy"’ and considered that it improved it.