I know that there is an MP3 clip in clips and snips but I really want to find the whole tune in music, midi or abc. I’ve tracked it on the web to being an Irish Tune with several titles.Ta me ma Chullers na doushe me. Chami ma Chattle. Thamama Hulla. I found a reference to Mudcat but the page doesn’t load. A gentleman called Bruce Olsen answered my plea on the UK folk newsgroup with the link to his site which is jsut a list of titles. One of the reasons that I want this music is that I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and am in bed a lot of the time and somebody suggested that I learn the tune as it was appropriate to me. 
I can’t learn from the MP3 as I have short term memory problems.
i’m not sure if this is the right tune selkie, http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/findtune?P=i’m+asleep&F2=find+(wide)&L=100 but it’s a plessure if it is!!
I got it from Walton’s ‘110 Best Tin whistles tunes’ book.
There’s nothing like learning the music in the time honoured traditional manner-and My way’s NOTHING like the time honoured traditional manner! 
Lixnaw. I think that’s the tune. The midi won’t load for me but I will print it and try. It’s just sucj a lovely haunting melody and would be great if I could master it on the Low D. Thanks.
if you click right right on abc or midi “save as” it should work, it worked for me.
Just had a listen to that link-turns out my ‘I am sleeping…’ AKA ‘Taimse im Chodladh’ is a totally DIFFERENT tune! :roll:
That link isn’t the same tune as the one on the snips and clips page. 
Is it possible to convert an MP3 to a Winamp media file?
bump! selkie is not able to play by ear due to her short term memory problem
It’s on Planxty’s “Words and Music”. Liam O Flynn plays it very slowly and quite beautifully on D uilleann pipes, just try to play along with him and you’ll have it quickly.
I checked that one out at Amazon and decided to get the CD as it has some really nice stuff on it. Somebody has also offered to try to put it down as sheet music. Everything’s good today. 
I had a quick listen to the Clips 'n Snips recording while reading the bmp version that you have, Selkie.
It is the same tune, the differences are within the normal range of variation of individuals’ versions. As it happens, these differences seem to occur particularly in the places where I’m not too sure of the tune myself, but neither seems to be what I half-remember. A common problem where people learn airs from recordings is that one person’s variation becomes the next person’s understanding of what is the basic tune. That’s OK up to a point, but then when the variation includes running two phrases together the phrasing goes awry when the next person in the chain puts breathing pauses in inappropriate places.
I would trust O’Flynn’s version, he would probably have got it from Séamus Ennis who would have sung it, but while you 're waiting for it you can already be working on getting familiar with what you already have.
I suggest that you ignore the grace notes in the printed version completely, they will only confuse you: try to capture the basic tune first by listening to the recording and reading it at the same time, without trying to play it, and noting where the written version is different from the tune as you want to play it. If necessary “correct” the written version with a pencil
If you have difficulty reading the bmp version that you have, let us know and we’ll try another approach.
Here you go! The proper spelling is Taimse 'im Chodladh
http://www27.tok2.com/home/kyrie/helga_tunes/slow_air/Taimse.jpg
Thanks for both the black dots and the linguistic input, Gippo. I had my doubts about aspirating the d before the l, but was influenced by the pronunciation (note to non-Irish-speakers: the d is silent).
But do you want to reconsider your apostrophe? 
if there is one at all, surely it should be after the m.
Yeah you’re right Roger. I put it in and then intended to take it out but forgot. Also there is a fada on the ‘a’ in Taimse!!
Bhí tú id chodladh
(he said, revelling in the luxury of a Belgian keyboard with easily accessible accents).
the accents look great but how on earth do I say it
In Munster Irish, with which I’m most familiar, it would be THAWMsheh im KHULLah (that’s a short U, rather than Scottish-style).
If you’re a native Scot, you might find Donegal pronunciation easier: that would be something like THYMEsheh im KHOLLah (cue auditory fantasy featuring the lovely Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh’s dulcet tones)