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Thread #59 Message #2724579
Posted By: Jim Dixon
16-Sep-09 - 12:37 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: My Lagan Love (Joseph Campbell)
Subject: Ly rAdd: MY LAGAN LOVE (Joseph Campbell)
There are 2 copies of this song in the DT: LAGAN LOVE and MY LAGAN LOVE, plus the one above in this thread, but none of them quite agrees with the lyrics I have found here:
Where Lagan stream sings lullaby, There blows a lily fair; The twilight gleam is in her eye, The night is on her hair. But like a lovesick leanannsidhe, She has my heart in thrall. No life I own nor liberty, For love is lord of all.
And often when the beetle's horn Has lulled the eve to sleep; I steal up to her sheiling lorn And through the dooring peep; There by the cricket's singing-stone She spares the bogwood fire, And sings in sad sweet undertone, The song of heart's desire.
[Furthermore, some versions have a third and fourth verse, but there are no such verses in my source. I have boldfaced the words that are different from the one in this thread.]