ERIN’S GREEN SHORE There are 2 songs to be distinguished: (1), an Irish patriotic song, referring to "the daughter of Daniel O’Connell": John Harrington Cox, "Folk-Songs of the South" (1925, 1967), 442 ( no. 151): 3 versions, without music; the 3rd titled "The Irish Dream". Kenneth Peacock, "Songs of the Newfoundland Outports" (1965), II.362. 2 versions, with music. First tune also found to the popular text "The Blooming Bright Star of Belleisle". 2nd is a typically Irish tune in 6/8; in. 3/4 time in P. W. Joyce, "Old Irish Folk Music & Songs'” (1909, 1965), 151 (no. 325), with one stanza [of version 2 below!], and in Greenleaf & Mansfield, "Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland" (1933, 1968), 142 (no. 69). Helen Creighton, "Songs & Ballads from Nova Scotia" (1922, 1966), 171 (no. 79), "The Mantle of Green". H. M. Belden, "Ballads & Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society" (2nd ed., 1955), 282. (2), a love song about Waterloo: in Creighton, ibid., 60 (no. 30), "Mantle So Green", to its own tune. Belden, ibid., 151, "The Mantle of Green". One stanza in Joyce as above. Ord, "Bothy Songs & Ballads" (1930), 154. Colm O Lochlainn, "Irish Street Ballads" (1939), 14 (no. 7), with music. James N. Healy, "The Mercier Book of Old Irish Street Ballads" (Cork, 1967), 284. That should keep you going. Tellus about the BC woman!

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