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Thread #82374   Message #3055556
Posted By: Jim Dixon
17-Dec-10 - 09:58 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Glenarm Bay
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Glenarm Bay
GLENARM BAY is in Sam Henry's Songs of the People. I can't see the whole thing online, but I was able to extract this much. It's definitely not complete:

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And the blue sea washed the pebbles white along Glenarm Bay.

'Twas there I spied a charming maid, a maid both young and gay.
The sun arose, nor brighter shone than she appeared that day.
I stepped up to this fair maid and unto her did say,
'What brings you here, so early, dear, along Glenarm Bay?'

She answered me right modestly, 'What makes you ask me so?
There's nothing brings young women here, but what all young men know.
It's the love that stirs a maiden young,' she modestly did say,
'And a manly man must prove himself along Glenarm Bay.'

Says I, 'My dear, you need not fear. All flattery I deny.
If you but felt the pain of love doth in my bosom lie,
You would surely pity me, my love, and name the happy day,
And cure these wounds that you gave me along Glenarm Bay.....