Hi, I learned this version in the early 70s from a compilation LP, I'm fairly sure it was Ann Breene singing. Think Harnett is a family name? Someone once corrected me one or two of the words I have for the third verse (second half); but I can't remember what they said - sorry! Maggie Sit you down loyal comrades, sit you down for a while While I spend my last hours in Erin's Green Isle come fill up your glasses and we'll drink hand in hand for tomorrow I'll be leaving the shores of Lough Bran. In the oncoming morning I'll be bidding adieu To Leitrim, Drumshanbo and sweet Carrick too But no matter what fortunes I may seek far away My thoughts will be with you by night and by day. No more will I ramble 'round Hartnett's green hills And the place I love dearest is down by the mill It's great fertile valley where oft times I ran And felt the fresh breezes round the Shores of Lough Bran There's my father and mother, you can hear them both sigh And the tears down their pale cheeks, it would moisten your eye But I will assist them, please God, when I can Far away from lovely Ireland and the shores of Lough Bran.
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