OK, this gets really confusing. Too many songs with the same or similar titles. Here is the song in the Digital Tradition. No source is identified. There's no entry for this song in the Traditional Ballad Index, and the listing at folktrax.org is sketchy and confusing. As stated above, the DT MIDI doesn't work for this song. It seems to me to be a composed song, I'd guess from the late 19th or early 20th century. Does it appear in and songbooks or recordings?
Silly Wizard recorded a song with this title on Live Wizardry and maybe others - is it this one?
Can anybody identify the source of the DT lyrics?
-Joe Offer-

The Banks of the Lee (from the Digital Tradition).

When two lovers meet down beside the green bower
When two lovers meet down beneath the green tree
When Mary, fond Mary, declared to her lover
"You have stolen my poor heart from the Banks of the Lee"

Chorus
I loved her very dearly, so true and sincerely
There was no one in this wide world I loved better than she
Every bush, every bower, every sweet Irish flower
Reminds me of my Mary, on the banks of the Lee.

"Don't stay out late, love, on the moorlands, my Mary
Don't stay out late, love, on the moorlands from me"
How little was our notion when we parted on the ocean
That we were forever parted from the Banks of the Lee

(Chorus)

I will pluck her some roses, some blooming Irish roses
I will pluck her some roses, the fairest that ever grew
And I'll leave them on the grave of my own true lovely Mary
In that cold and silent churchyard where she sleeps 'neath the dew

Chorus^^^