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11 Jun 99 - 03:52 AM (#85813) Subject: mantle of green From: daniel_schloessinger@yahoo.de Hie out there ! I´m searching for the words to a song called "Mantle of green. I only remember the first line. It was : "When my love came to Dublin , one fine ... morning ..????". I ope there´s anyone who can help me. Hope to hear from anyone , Daniel |
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11 Jun 99 - 04:39 AM (#85816) Subject: RE: mantle of green From: Wolfgang we have 'Mantle so green' in the database, but it doesn't have the line you cite. Wolfgang |
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11 Jun 99 - 08:53 AM (#85848) Subject: Lyr Add: MANTLE OF GREEN From: Brakn This is slightly different than the one in the DT. Regards, Mick Bracken As I walked out one morning in June To view the fair fields and the meadows green, I spied a young damsel. She appeared like a queen With her costly fine robes and her mantle so green. I stood in amazement and struck with surprise. I thought her an angel that fell from the skies. Her eyes like the diamond, her cheeks like the rose, She is one of the fairest that nature composed. Said I, "Pretty fair maid, if you come with me, We will join in wedlock and married we'll be. I'll dress you in rich attire. You'll appear like a queen With your costly fine robes and your mantle so green." She answered me, "Young man, you must be refused, For I'll wed with no man. You must me excuse. To the green hills I'll wander to shun all men's view, For the lad that I love lies in famed Waterloo." "Since you are not married, tell me your lover's name. I have been in battle. I might know the same." "Draw to my garment and there you will see His name is embroidered on my mantle so green." On the raising of her mantle it's there I beheld His name and his surname in letters of gold. "Young William O'Reilly" appeared in my view. He was my chief comrade in famed Waterloo. "We fought so victorious where bullets did fly, And in the field of Norvan your true lover does lie. We fought for three days to the fourth afternoon. He received his death summons on the eighteenth of June. "When he was dying, I heard his last cry: 'Were you here, lovely Nancy, in peace I would die.' Peace is proclaimed and truth I declare: There is your love's token: the gold ring I wear." She stood in amazement, the paler she grew. She flew from my arms with her heart full of woe. "To the green hills I'll wander for the lad that I love." "Rise up, lovely Nancy. Your grief I'll remove. "Oh Nancy, lovely Nancy, it was I won your heart In your father's garden that day we did part. In your father's garden within a green shadow tree Where I rolled in your arms in your mantle so green." This couple got married, I heard people say. Great nobles attended their wedding that day. Peace is proclaimed and the war is all over. "You're welcome to my arms, lovely Nancy, once more." |
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11 Jun 99 - 12:35 PM (#85891) Subject: Lyr Add: MANTLE OF GREEN From: MudGuard Here comes the Mantle of Green I know (and containing the line you have): MANTLE OF GREEN My love came to Dublin one fine Sunday morning. My love came to Dublin to honour me there. He wore a green ribbon wrapped round a green bonnet, And I wore a bangle of gold in my hair. Now the leaves they were green on that bright Sunday morning, But now they have fallen. There's wind in the bough. And I never asked him to buy me a ring. Fall down very lightly, you leaves, on me now. I will not ask the clergy for prayers in the chapel. I'll not hear the minister saying his prayers. I'll go down to the river 'neath the birch trees and branches, And ask them to raise up their arms in the air. Now the good girls they sleep in all their fine modesty. The bad girls they sleep in the hide of their shame. I lie alone in the wood by the river Till I see my true love return with my name. And I make him some shoes of the finest green leather. I make him a cloth the finest you've seen, And he'll walk like a lord through the city of Dublin, And I'll walk beside him in mantles of green.
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11 Jun 99 - 12:39 PM (#85893) Subject: RE: mantle of green From: Wolfgang well done, Andreas, who sings that? Wolfgang |
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11 Jun 99 - 12:45 PM (#85895) Subject: RE: mantle of green From: MudGuard I have it on the CD The Irish Folk Festival - The Women, and this song is sung by Aoife Clancy Andreas |
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11 Jun 99 - 01:41 PM (#85911) Subject: RE: mantle of green From: Daniel That´s it !!! Thanx a lot ! Bye, Daniel |
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25 Oct 14 - 12:55 PM (#3672065) Subject: Lyr Add: MY LOVE CAME TO DUBLIN (from June Tabor) From: Jim Dixon The latter song—the one requested—is also known by the title MY LOVE CAME TO DUBLIN: MY LOVE CAME TO DUBLIN As sung by June Tabor on "Apples" My love came to Dublin one fine Sunday morning. My love came to Dublin to honour me there. He wore a green ribbon all about his blue bonnet, And I wore a bangle of gold in my hair. Now the leaves they were green on that fine Sunday morning, But now they have fallen, their wind in the bough.(?) And I never asked him to buy me a ribbon. Fall down very lightly, you leaves, on me now. Now the good girls they sleep in all their fine modesty. The bad girls they sleep in the height of their shame. I must lie alone in the cold by the river Till I see my true love come back with my name. I won't ask the clergy for prayers in the chapel. And I won't hear the minister saying his prayers. I'll go out to the mood of the birch trees and branches, And I'll ask them to raise up their arms in the air. I will make my love some shoes of the finest Spanish leather. I will make my love a coat the finest ever seen, And he'll walk like a lord through the city of Dublin, And I'll walk beside him in a mantle of green. [Repeat first verse.] |
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25 Oct 14 - 05:39 PM (#3672119) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mantle of Green / My Love Came to Dublin From: Fergie Written by Patrick Galvin who also wrote Where Oh Where is Our James Connolly. Fergus |
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25 Oct 14 - 06:35 PM (#3672137) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mantle of Green / My Love Came to Dublin From: GUEST,Bob Coltman Yes, and first recorded by Patrick Galvin on Riverside in the 1950s (can't trace the LP number at the moment). Galvin's is a fine poignant version, worth hearing if you can find it. Bob |
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26 Oct 14 - 07:37 AM (#3672220) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mantle of Green / My Love Came to Dublin From: Reinhard The second verse of June Tabor's My Love Came to Dublin is (from the CD liner notes): Well the leaves they were green on that fine Sunday morning, But now they are falling, they're winding the bough. And I never asked him to buy me a ring. Fall down very lightly, you leaves, on me now. |
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26 Aug 16 - 07:45 PM (#3806966) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mantle of Green / My Love Came to Dublin From: GUEST,Rosa Alba According to Danny Couper, it was a protest by Galvin (?a former priest) in terms of the treatment of unmarried mothers. |
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27 Aug 16 - 02:59 AM (#3806993) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mantle of Green / My Love Came to Dublin From: michaelr How would one pronounce "winding" in the line Reinhard posted? |
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27 Aug 16 - 03:50 AM (#3806994) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mantle of Green / My Love Came to Dublin From: Reinhard June Tabor sings it with a long 'i' as in 'minding'. |
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08 Mar 17 - 01:05 PM (#3843710) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mantle of Green / My Love Came to Dublin From: GUEST,Ruth The Tabor version must be based on an older folk song because there are lines from it in Steven Vincent Benet's epic Civil War poem "John Brown's Body" (1928). It comes near the end, from a country girl who met a Union deserter, got pregnant by him, then lost him when he was arrested. Love came by from the riversmoke, When the leaves were fresh on the tree, But I cut my heart on the blackjack oak Before they fell on me. The leaves are green in the early Spring, They are brown as linsey now, I did not ask for a wedding-ring From the wind in the bending bough. Fall lightly, lightly, leaves of the wild, Fall lightly on my care, I am not the first to go with child Because of the blowing air. I am not the first nor yet the last To watch a goosefeather sky, And wonder what will come of the blast And the name to call it by. Snow down, snow down, you whitefeather bird, Snow down, you winter storm, Where the good girls sleep with a gospel word To keep their honor warm. The good girls sleep in their modesty, The bad girls sleep in their shame, But I must sleep in the hollow tree Till my child can have a name. I will not ask for the wheel and thread To spin the labor plain, Or the scissors hidden under the bed To cut the bearing-pain. I will not ask for the prayer in church Or the preacher saying the prayer, But I will ask the shivering birch To hold its arms in the air. Cold and cold and cold again, Cold in the blackjack limb The winds of the sky for his sponsor-men And a bird to christen him. Now listen to me, you Tennessee corn, And listen to my word, This is the first child ever born That was christened by a bird. He's going to act like a hound let loose When he comes from the blackjack tree, And he's going to walk in proud shoes All over Tennessee. I'll feed him milk out of my own breast And call him Whistling Jack. And his dad'll bring him a partridge nest, As soon as his dad comes back. |
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08 Mar 17 - 01:14 PM (#3843713) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mantle of Green / My Love Came to Dublin From: GUEST What a lovely lyric...stunning. |
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08 Mar 17 - 02:24 PM (#3843728) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mantle of Green / My Love Came to Dublin From: Jack Campin There is a version in Ford's Vagabond Songs published in Scotland in 1904. I seem to remember he implied it was Irish, whether or not his version actually had any Irish placenames in it. Must be a 19th century broadside ballad. Somebody must have an Irish copy of it surely? |
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08 Mar 17 - 03:03 PM (#3843738) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mantle of Green / My Love Came to Dublin From: Steve Gardham I'm happy to accept the Galvin provenance. Certainly I have no record of any broadsides. Plenty for 'M so green' some of which are titled 'M of Green'. What page in Ford have you, Jack? |
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08 Mar 17 - 06:14 PM (#3843767) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mantle of Green / My Love Came to Dublin From: Steve Gardham Jack, I have been right through the 1904 edition and can find nothing remotely like the song here! Can you point me in the right direction, please? |
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08 Mar 17 - 08:18 PM (#3843778) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mantle of Green / My Love Came to Dublin From: Jack Campin Sorry. I got Ford and Ord mixed up; I was miles away from either book then. Ord p.155 in the John Donald facsimile. The Irish reference is the narrator's name, William O'Riely. |
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28 Jun 21 - 04:47 PM (#4111742) Subject: RE: Origins: Mantle of Green / My Love Came to Dublin From: Joe Offer Joe - needs cleanup |