Hello, Mysha. I don't know where your lines came from, but they seem to start in the middle of a verse. Here are the same lines from the DT, typed to show the internal rhyme (or near rhyme): At Orenmore in the County Galway, One pleasant evening in the month of May, I spied a damsel, she was young and handsome Her beauty fairly took my breath away. Cho: She wore no jewels, nor costly diamonds, No paint or powder, no, none at all. But she wore a bonnet with a ribbon on it And round her shoulder was a Galway Shawl. ============ The overall rhyme scheme sure changes a lot in the course of the song. Thanks for the explanation about the meaning of a Galway shawl.
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