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Thread #122638   Message #2696845
Posted By: GUEST,mrsmac
10-Aug-09 - 07:27 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Banks of the Callan
This would have been a popular enough song around Armagh at a time - probably the reason why i never learnt it. The 1st verse goes something like

As i went a walking one evening in June
The black feathered songsters their notes they did tune
I spied a fair damsel as the sun it went down
on the banks of the Callan near sweet keady town