“Banks of Sullane”

Description

The singer meets "a damsel of queenly appearance" and proposes; if he were king she'd wear a crown. Her father's angry looks discourages him. He will rove alone until death "for the sake of my charming fair Helen That I met in the town of Macroom"

Notes

OCanainn: "One of the most popular English ballads of the Ballyvourney and Coolea area in West Cork."

Macroom is in County Cork. - BS

Cross references

• cf. "The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow" (tune)
• cf. "Heather Down the Moor (Among the Heather; Down the Moor)" (theme)

Recordings

• Ollie Conway, "Banks of Sullane" (on IRClare01)

References

1. OCanainn, pp. 70-71, "The Banks of Sullane" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. Roud #9718
3. BI, RcBaOSul