I first heard the song on Sean O'Meara's WWOZ radio program "Music from the Glen" one fairly-recent St. Patrick's Day morning. Sean's show is on Saturday, and I think I heard him play a recording of this song the year when March 17th actually fell on Saturday.

A wonderful lyric; I'd love to sing it, but doubt that I'd ever be able to memorize it all!

I regret not having learned of it, and learned it, when I was younger and better able to commit words to memory.