My mother (who recently died at age 95) sang Yeats' poem "Lake Isle of Innisfree" to a melody she may have learned either around 1925, or possibly earlier from her own mother. I have searched and uncovered only some melodies for Lake Isle of Innisfree that are much more recent. The one I am seeking went something like this:

I [C] will [C] a- [D] rise [E] and [D] go [C] now [E],
and [D] go [C] to [A] In- [A] -nis- [E] -free [D]

[...I am entering this without the benefit of knowing how notation like this is customarily done while typing, and also without being sure the intervals I am trying to represent are exactly correct. (I am trying to hum and type.) I think the end of the second line is about an octave below the start of the first line.]

I am interested in knowing if anyone else has ever heard "Lake Isle of Innisfree" set to a melody something like this, and if so, where it was learned and when. My mother and grandmother, while not Irish, were great admirers of the Irish tenors who were popular in the 1920s and it might have been recorded around then and learned from a record.

Thanks! from Gail