Kate Rusby recorded this song. In the cover sleeve it says
"a very well known Irish ballad from Napoleonic times. it tells the sad story of lovers separated by a governmental decree that single men, for monetary reward, shuld marry the wives of landed lords away at war so that the land would still be worked."
sorry if that repeats any of the previous thread, which I haven't read.
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