Tune No. 463 in "The Complete Petrie Collection" is essentially identical to that of Joyce's "Leprehaun." Its title is "Come All Y'United [sic] Irishmen, and Listen unto Me." Petrie (who died in 1866) notes that he received the tune from "Mr. [P.W.] Joyce, from J. Martin and P. Cudmore." This was apparently the song of which Joyce, in 1873, could recall only one line: "O, my darling girl, I'll soon come back and surely marry you!" (Unless he'd heard a second song to the same tune!) I haven't been able to find a text of the song.
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