“The Green Fields Round Ferbane”

Description

"I curse the day that I sailed away From my dear little Isle so green." The singer recalls his youth and some friends he'll see no more. "The lust for gold it soon grows cold." "I'll turn my face from this awful place" and go home to stay.

Recordings

  • Big John Maguire, "The Green Fields of Ferbane" (on IRHardySons)

References

  1. Roud #17891
  2. BI, RcGFRFe

About

Author: John Mary Doyle (1896-1969) (source: notes to IRHardySons)
Earliest date: 1980 (IRHardySons)
Found in: Ireland