Lyr Req: Bridget Donoghue

Subject: lyrics request for song Bridget Donoghue
From:
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 04:14 PM

does anyone have the lyrics for a Danu song 'Bridget Donoghue' - written by someone called Patterson in 19th century I think.

cheers
Declan Plummer

Subject: RE: lyrics request for song Bridget Donoghue
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Apr 04 - 04:29 PM

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Subject: Lyr Add: BRIDGET DONAHUE
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 24 Apr 04 - 01:07 PM

Transcribed from
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mussm:@field(NUMBER+@band(sm1882+22239))

BRIDGET DONAHUE
Words and Music by Johnny Patterson, 1882.

It was in the county Kerry, a little way from Clare,
Where the boys and girls are merry at a patron race or fair.
The town is called Killorglin, a purty place to view,
But what makes it interesting is my Bridget Donahue.

CHORUS: Oh! Bridget Donahue, I really do love you.
Although I'm in America, to you I will be true.
Then Bridget Donahue, I'll tell you what I'll do:
Just take the name of Patterson, and I'll take Donahue.

Her father is a farmer, and a dacent man is he.
He is liked by all the people from Killorglin to Tralee.
And Bridget on a Sunday, when coming home from mass,
She's admired by all the people. Sure they wait to see her pass.

I sent her home a picture. I did, upon my word:
Not a picture of myself, but a picture of a bird.
It was the American eagle, and says I, "Miss Donahue,
Our eagle's wings are large enough to shelter me and you."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bridget Donoghue
From: Bearheart
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 12:29 PM

How coincidental-- I had just been transcribing this from Danu's recorded version and was having trouble with the place names-- and it appears as if by magic! Only on the Mudcat...
Bekki

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bridget Donoghue
From: GUEST,Decaln Plummer
Date: 03 Jun 04 - 04:45 PM

Thanks Jim Dixon - you are a star!
Mudcat - you are the best website on the planet!

Declan Plummer
(and his grateful mum)