How did I stumble into this after all these years?

However, there is currently an earnest discussion in the forum on the website of the Society of St Gregory (www.ssg.org.uk). The usual tune (St Patrick) allows of a chorus using the last line of the verse ("On Erin's green valleys, on Ein's green valleys, on Erin's green valleys look down in thy love.") in the manner of "Pleasant and Delightful" but! do we sing the last line of each verse in its turn (as in P and D), or always the last line of the first verse at the end of each of the others? (Angels on the head of a pin, anyone?)

A bit of cultural cross-fertilisation would be interesting, if anyone knows how it is usually sung.

In passing, in case anyone is still searching, there are a couple more verses:

at verse 3:

In the war against sin, in the fight for the faith,
Dear saint may thy children resist unto death;
May their strength be in meekness, in penance, in prayer,
Their banner the cross which they glory to bear.

then verse 4 as 3 above, finishing with 5:

Ever bless and defend the sweet land of our birth
Where the shamrock still blooms as when thou wert on earth
And our hearts shall yet burn wheresoever we roam
For God and St Patrick and our native home.

(I hold no brief for either the theology or the taste of these.)