This list was in the Help Forum. I wondered if anybody might be able to help with this list. I'll add line breaks and clean it up a bit.
-Joe Offer-

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Subject: trouble finding lyrics
From: Rebecca
Date: 29-May-00 - 08:11 PM

I've recently become interested in Irish folk music and I have been racking my memory for the lyrics and melodies of songs that my grandmother used to sing to me. I'm happy to report that your website has been of tremendous help as well as my college's library. However there are still some songs that I just can't find. I can remember the melodies and thankfully I had the sense to write down the titles. Unfortunately I didn't have the sense to write down the words and thus have forgotten some of the lyrics. I am tired of mumbling through them. Please help. Following is a list of song titles and first lines (I think there're right). Bear with me because the list is quite long. Please help me find the rest of these songs.

Thank you, Rebecca

• "Ta Mo Chleamhnas A Dheanamh" (click and follow links within the thread) - Ta mo chleamhnas a dheanamh inniu agus inne (I found the Gaelic words but not the English ones)
• "Willie Taylor" or "William Taylor" - Willie Taylor and his youthful lover or William Taylor was a brisk young sailor (Click for Billy Taylor)
• "Gathering Pace" - It's on a day like today
• "There was a Lady" - There was a lady in her father's garden (check these -click)
  (See "There Was A Maid In Her Father's Garden" )
• "Dark Iniseoghain" - The maidens of beauty and sweet so forlorn
  (improved version)
• "The Galway Rover" (click) - I've the face of the stranger with the smile of the rover
• "I Once Knew a Pretty Girl" - Once I knew a pretty girl
• "Bonny Blue-Eyed Nancy" - How can I lay upon the top of a mountain
• "Carrigdhoun" - Uncharacter (?) 'neath his brow
• "A Night Visitor's Song" - I must away, love, I can no longer tarry
• "I Know my Faith is Worth Much More than Me" - I put my trembling hand upon my aching heart
• "Song in F" - Last night I heard your voice
• "Where are You?" - Where are you tonight? I wonder/And where will you be tonight when I cry?
• "Broken Wings" - Tall tree, turn and face the waves
• Clohinne Winds" - The shadows fell across the road
• "My Own Native Land" - There's a dear little isle in the westerly ocean
• "Banks of Claudy" - It was a summer's morning
  (Another version posted below by jayohjo)
• "When I Was a Fair Maid" - When I was a fair maid about 17
• "I'd Cross the Wild Atlantic" - Ah me, I must mourn my true love ever more
• "The Boys of Barr na Sraide" - O the tower (?) climbs the mountain and looks out upon the sea
• "O Ro Song of the Sea" - Out on the ocean deep, full sails, up, away (maybe Bheir Me O???)
• "High on a Mountain" (& click) - As I looked at the valley down below
• "The Humors of the King of Ballyhooley" (click) - I'll tell you how it was with me if to listen you are willing
• "Stor mo Chroi" - A Stor mo Chroi when you're far away
• "Blackwaterside" (check here also here but neither starts like your example) - I am a roving Irishman, you need not know my name
• "P for Patty" - As I rode out upon the May morning for to take a pleasant walk
• "The Rollicking Boys of Tandaragee" - Good luck to all here, my bar (?) and my cat
• "A Bucket of the Mountain Dew" - I'm on the little hill with a mean little still [also Real Old Mountain Dew]
• "The Song of the Riddles" - A gentleman's fair daughter stepped out that narrow lane
• "John Reilly" - Standing in yon flowery garden, a handsome young man, he passed me by
• "The Maid of Culmore" - Leaving sweet lovely Derry for fair London town
• "Mattie" - Mattie walk out on a frozen night, he was heading for the pub and he had no delight
• "Lone Shanakyle" - Far, far from the isle of the holy and grand
• "Shamrock Shore" - Ye brave young sons of Erin's isle, I hope you will attend awhile
• "Thousands are Sailing" - You brave Irish heroes wherever you be
• "To Welcome Paddy Home" - I am a true born Irishman, I'll never deny what I am
• "Erin's Lovely Home" - My father, he been a farmer, raised to industry
• "Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore" - O farewell thee well to Ireland, my own dear native land
• "Farewell and Remember Me" - Our ship is ready to bear away, come, come rage o'er the stormy sea (Farewell My Love and Remember Me
• "Fare Thee Well (Marianne)" - O fare thee well, my darling true, I'm leaving for Stower (?) o'er the morn
• "I'm Going Back" - There was a stand of oak trees beside my father's house
• "Shores of Amerikay" - I'm bidding farewell to the land of my youth
• "Wild Wind" At the foot of the mountain stands a high, high tree
• "Blackthorn" - So many men think that I am theirs because I sit with them, because I drink with them
• "Take it Down from the Mast" - You have murdered brave Lelan Rory (?), you have butchered young Richard and Joe
• "The Man from the Daily Mail" - O Ireland is a very funny place, sir, it's a strange and troubled land
• "Dungannon" - Some men went to Dungannon town to __? for the __?
• "British Army" - When I was young, I had a twist/For punching babies with me fist/And then I thought I would enlist/And join the British army (more verses & discussion)
• "James Larkin" - In Dublin city in 1913, the boss was boss and the poor were slaves
• "The Fluter's Ball" - Have you heard of Billy Fluter from the town of Ballymuck [better here (click)]
• "How are Things in Glocca Morra?" - I hear a bird, a Glocca Morra bird/It well may be he's bringing me a cheering word
• "Ireland, Mother Ireland" - O land of love and beauty to you, our hearts are wed
• "To Ladies' Eyes" - The ladies' eyes around o we can't refuse, we can't refuse
• "Bushes and Briars" - Through bushes and through briars, I lately took my way
• "Are Eirinn Ni Neosfainn Ce hi (For Ireland I won't Tell her Name) - There's a home by the wide evermore (?) that's sweep o'er the broad open sea

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I guess that's the longest single list of requests I've seen. I'll look around and see what I can find, and change the ones I found into clickable links. Anybody else?
-Joe Offer-

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Major contributions were made by

• Pene Azul, Blues Pianist (home of the bilingual pun)
• Malcolm Douglas
• Victoria H
• Mbo (who promised he'd post, but didn't - but he had really good intentions)
• Noreen
• Dan Milner, brother of Liam
• Philippa R.
• Wolfgang H.
• Jim C.
• Dan in Nova Scotia and Dave (the ancient mariner) - who gave sage advice

...Careful not to overlap, gang. We're starting to duplicate....