Hello again.

I wanted to give you the rest of the song.

It's a long time that we were aaquainted The space was exactly two years I was taking the matter quite easy still thinking that there were no fears But suspecting that I was some schemer and wanting my favours withdrawn She packed up her boxes quite hasty and went for a freic to Bunane

(You have the great verse from Wolfgang)

So now that she's gone to forsake me when she ran off for race and full speed And because we were always good neigbhours I hope this fair maid will succeed For Nancy and the Yankee were decent Sure it's oft times they treated poor Sean And it was only in a fit of vexation that Mary she went to Bunane.

It's a Cork song, I think, but I heard it in Mayo. A singer known as Johnny Mhairtin Larrie would sing it, So too did Seamas MacMathuna, but beyond that, I cannot say. There was one verse I heard and the Tailor Bawn was mentioned in it, so perhaps Seannin Nora Aodha could have written it. His son, Sean Og was a good piper in the outdoor style.