Long ago, I submitted the lyrics to this version of The Foggy Dew to the Mudcat, and it was added to the DT. Yesterday, I noticed that the DT has the wrong tune. It should not be the tune that goes to the rebel Foggy Dew. Today I scanned it in from the old book where I found the song and posted it to my website. It is here: The Foggy Dew - "A wan cloud was drawn..."

THE FOGGY DEW
Irish

    Oh! a wan cloud was drawn
    O'er the dim, weeping dawn,
As to Shannon's side I returned at last;
    And the heart in my breast
    For the girl I loved best
Was beating—ah beating, how loud and fast!
    While the doubts and the fears
    Of the long, aching years
Seemed mingling their voices with the moaning flood;
    Till full in my path,
    Like a wild water-wraith,
My true love's shadow lamenting stood.

    But the sudden sun kissed
    The cold, cruel mist
Into dancing showers of diamond dew;
    The dark flowing stream
    Laughed back to his beam,
And the lark soared singing aloft in the blue;
    While no phantom of night,
    But a form of delight
Ran with arms outspread to her darling boy:
    And the girl I love best
    On my wild, throbbing breast
Hid her thousand treasures, with a cry of joy.

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Alice Flynn