as sung by "Yankee" John Galusha (1859-1950) of Minerva NY, recorded by Marjorie Lansing Porter on October 25, 1949, and transcribed by Lee Knight.

Galusha sang a fair number of Irish songs and ballads that he'd learned in the lumberwoods and elsewhere in the Adirondack Mountain region of New York State. Many of his pieces have also been collected in Newfoundland and the Maritimes.

I can find no reference to this song, online or elsewhere.

DIAMONDS OF THE DAREE (sp?)

Diamonds of the Daree looks dismal today
Since my true love has gone and left me, I have no more to say
He's gone to old England, strange ladies to see
May the power that reigns above us bring him safe home to me
REFRAIN: repeat the last two lines of each verse

Oh Jimmie, lovely Jimmie, do you dream of the days
When you tapped upon my window, and called me away
Over high hills and lowlands, together we did go
And it's now you're going to leave me, with my heart full of woe
REFRAIN

The first time that you courted me, you know very well
'Twas in your father's palace, in the county Tyrone
Where you told me that you loved me,, above all womankind
Pray tell me of the reason, you've altered your mind
REFRAIN

The next time that you courted me, 'twas in yonders green wood
Where the pinks and the violets grew around where we stood
With your both arms around me, to shield me from the wind
It was there you first deluded that poor heart of mine
REFRAIN

If ever that I courted you, it was only a jest
For I never intended to make you my best
Oh I never intended for to make you my wife
No, nor never shall I, all the days of my life
REFRAIN

So begone false-hearted young man, I have no more to say
Perhaps that you and I, will be judged the same day
And the time it will come love, when rewarded you'll be
For false vows and broken promises that you made unto me
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