Hmmm. I got a McCormack CD called Prima Voce out of the library today, and it has him singing The Snowy-Breasted Pearl, but the words he sings are not like the ones above (in English, I mean), but much better.

His version - which is, I think, the version I knew as a child, starts:

O she is not like the rose
That proud in beauty grows...

But the sound is truly awful; it's very furry. Is the version on the CD John McCormack Rare Recordings 1904-42 remastered, does anyone know?