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Thread #124668 Message #2757497
Posted By: Reinhard
01-Nov-09 - 05:03 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Molehill? / Mohill / Handsome Polly-O
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Molehill? / Mohill / Handsome Polly-O
Thomas Moran's version is on the LP A Soldier's Life for Me, volume 8 of the Caedmon/Topic series The Folk Songs of Britain from the 1960s. The album notes say:
“Handsome Polly-O sung by Thomas Moran, Mohill, Co. Leitrim; recorded by Seamus Ennis (BBC Sound Archive)
This tale of the love-lorn captain still enjoys widespread popularity in the English-speaking world. It was published in Cecil Sharp's English Folk Song of the Southern Appalachians under the title of Pretty Katie-O and in Scotland it is generally sung as The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie to the air Kelvin Grove.”