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Posted By: Roberto
09-Oct-05 - 08:35 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Lowlands of Holland (from Patrick Galvin)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lowlands of Holland (from Patrick Gal
MANY THANKS TO JIM McLEAN, WHO CORRECTED AND COMPLETED THE TRANSCRIPTION.
The Lowlands of Holland Patrick Galvin, Irish Street Songs, Riverside RLP 12-613.
Last night I was a-married, and on my marriage bed Up comes a bold sea captain and stood at my bed-head: Saying - Arise, arise, you married man, and come along with me To the lowlands of Holland, to fight your enemy
She held her true love in her arms, still thinking he might stay But the Captain gave another shout, and he was forced away - O it's many a blithe young married man this night must go with me To the lowlands of Holland, for to fight the enemy
O Holland is a wondrous place, and in it grows much green It's a wild inhabitation for my true love to be in There the sugar cane grows plentiful and the fruit on every tree But the lowlands of Holland is between my love and me
But Ireland is a better place, a land of springy turf And all around McGilligan is the thunder of the surf And I would wish my true true love in Ireland for to be But the lowlands of Holland is between my love and me
No shoes nor stockings I put on nor comb went in my hair And neither coal nor candle-light shone in my chamber there Nor will I marry with any young man until the day I die Since the lowlands of Holland are between my love and me