“The Maid of Dunmore”
Description
The singer meets a maid whose sweetheart is fighting the French with Nelson. He asks her to leave Dunmore and live with him in Ireland. She refuses. He "picked up my alls and left for Ireland, And left that fair maid in Dunmore"
Supplemental text
Maid of Dunmore, The
Partial text(s)
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From Louise Manny and James Reginald Wilson, Songs of Miramichi,
#83, pp. 268-269. From the singing of Billy Price, Priceville, in
1960.
It happened on a fine summer's evening
When Phoebus most glorious did shine,
And the nightingale warbled melodious
And the dew it soon fell in the glen,
It was down by yon grave where I wandered
A while to condone in the shade,
My destiny there for to ponder;
It was there I beheld a fair maid.
(5 additional stanzas)
Notes
This hits so many familiar themes that it sounds like it ought to be a version of something else (compare, e.g., "The Plains of Waterloo (I)" [Laws N32] and "The Banks of Clyde (I)") -- but I can't locate a true parallel. - RBW.
References
- Manny/Wilson 83, "The Maid of Dunmore" (1 text, 1 tune)
- Dean, pp. 47-48, "The Lass of Dunmore" (1 text)
- ST MaWi083 (Partial)
- Roud #9177 and 3668
- BI, MaWi083