“The Wreck of the Gwendoline”
Description
The singer is cabin-boy on the Clonmel river boat Gwendoline. A storm comes up and they run aground. They walk ashore and go home by "ass an' car" Twenty horses pull her out of the weeds "but never more, by sea or shore, Will sail the Gwendoline"
Notes
Clonmel, South Tipperary, is on the river Suir. - BS
Cross references
- cf. "The Star of the County Down" (tune) and references there
- cf. "The E-ri-e" (theme) and references there
References
- OLochlainn-More, pp. 257-258, "The Wreck of the Gwendoline" (1 text)
- BI, OLcM257