""Like she whom the prize of Mount Ida had won, There approached a fair lassie as bright as the sun....."" It's quite possible that that particular song is the work of either an Irish or Scots Gaelic poet that has been absorbed into the tradition As I said, the Irish repertoire has a number of such songs Paddy Tunney specialised in them That language is not common to folk songs Jim Carroll
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