I posted the following over three years ago, and got no response. Here it is again, in the hope that someone may have seen this somewhere. I still think it out there somewhere . . . .

Stephen

The broadside of "The Streams of Lovely Nancy" by Wright has a stanza not found in other broadsides:

The bright stars of Ireland, how glorious they shine, / Her skin's like the lily, her hair of dark brown, / I delight in her company more than gold, I declare, / Although she does slight me for the love that I bear.

The Newfoundland versions published by Maud Karpeles also have this, of course with some differences of detail:

The bright star of Erion so pleasant may shine, / With her hair over her shoulder of a deep, deepish brown. / I delight in her company more than gold I declare / Although she did slight me, she's the one I love dear.

"Skin like the lily" is commonplace, a number of Irish songs refer to a _cailin deas_ as "The bright star of" one town or another,;and the truelove may have brown hair in a number of songs. Beyond this, I wonder if anyone can identify the stanza or some part of it in any other song? I feel that it's out there somewhere but haven't come across it.

Stephen