“Seek Not from Whence Love She Came”
Description
The singer loves a colleen who's "happy in old Donegal." "Her figure is proper and tall,' her voice is "sweeter by far than the songbird." Singer says "I know she's an angel, And I'm not going to tell you her name." Soon they will marry.
Cross references
- cf. "The Pride of Kilkee" (motif: hiding a sweetheart's name) and references there
- cf. "Tons of Bright Gold" (motif: hiding a sweetheart's name) and references there
Recordings
- Mary Anne Connelly, "Seek Not from Whence Love She Came" (on IRHardySons)
References
- Roud #17897
- BI, RcSNWLSC