Please excuse me for jumping in here, I hope that's fine. I love Luke Kellys version (on youtube) but have been wondering for some time now about the origins and story of the song. Also, when I sing the song, I sing it with "an hour of the day" instead of "an hour and a day". I think it stresses out, that she is being late when he is waiting "an hour and a quarter" at the riverford. Makes more sense to me, that the time is mentioned twice this way. Regards from Germany Alex
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