Date: 22 Mar 22 - 08:33 PM

The song CND quotes the review of is a different song from the one Rightlawed asked about at the start of the thread. The song which has been attributed to McCall and to Drennan https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=78811 is also called "Belfast Mountain" and begins

All on Belfast Mountains
I heard a maid complain,
Making forth her lamentation
Down by some purling stream,
Saying 'My heart is fettered,
Fast in the bonds of love,
All by a false pretender
Who doth inconstant prove.

or

'Twas on the Belfast mountains I heard a maid complain,
And she vexed the sweet June evening there with her heart-broken strain,
Saying, "Woe is me! Life's anguish is more than I can dree,
Since Henry Joy McCraken died all on the gallows tree.

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Rightlawed asks for a song which begins, "I am a proud United man, from the Antrim glens I come"

HENRY JOY

An Ulster man I am proud to be [I am a proud United man]
From the Antrim glens I come
And though I’ve laboured by the sea
I have followed fife and drum
I have heard the martial tramp of men [or] the tramp of marching men
I’ve seen them fight and die
Ah! Lads it’s well I remember when
I followed Henry Joy

I dragged [pulled] my boat in from the shore
And I hid my sails away
I hung my nets upon a tree
And I scanned the moonlit bay
The boys were out, the red coats too [I kissed my wife and children too]
I kissed my love good-bye [I bid my last goodbye]
And in the shade of the greenwood glade
I followed Henry Joy

In Antrim Town the tyrant stood. He tore our ranks with ball
But with a cheer and our pikes to clear, we swept them o're the wall
Our pikes and sabres flashed that day, we won, then lost - ah why?
No matter lads; I fought beside and I shielded Henry Joy

It was all for Ireland's cause we fought
And we gave her heart and hand
And the handsome one of high reknown, he fought with the rebel sons
We fought the Redcoats and their guns
I saw them fall and die
And aye, my boys, 'twas for Ireland then that I followed Henry Joy

It was for Ireland’s cause we fought
For sire and home, we bled
‘Though our numbers [pikes] were few, our hearts beat true
And five to one lay dead
And there's many a lassie lost her lad
And mother mourned her boy
For youth was strong in the daring throng
That followed Henry Joy

In Belfast town, they built a tree
And the redcoats mustered there
I watched him come as the beat of a drum
Rolled out in the barrack square
He kissed his sister and went aloft
And waved a fond good-bye
My God he died, I turned and I cried
"They have murdered Henry Joy."

=== words in brackets are as sung by Frank Harte. Frank doesn't sing verse 3 above - "In Antrim Town the tyrant stood. He tore our ranks with ball ...". I don't know his verse 3 - It was all for Ireland's cause cause we fought / And we gave her heart and hand - but have tried to cobble it together from the recording. I had to substitute a few words that I couldn't hear correctly.

"Henry Joy" is also one of the songs included in https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=55152,55152 "Mudcat CD Violet: Liner Notes PermaThread"

sheet music is included in the DT entry https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=2587,2587&SongID=2587,25a>