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Thread #3007   Message #3051762
Posted By: Jim Dixon
12-Dec-10 - 10:40 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Song from "Mountains of the Moon", 1990
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song from "Mountains of the Moon", 19
I got this much from a book Le Voyage dans la littérature anglo-saxonne by Société des anglicistes de l'enseignement supérieur (M. Didier, 1973), page 267, where the translation into English is attributed to Donal O'Sullivan (but from what language, I couldn't see):

On that Monday of woe far away you did row
Calm and peaceful the sea was an hour ere dawn's glow
And you little did know that cold death hovered low
That sad day still haunts me wherever I go...

The book is classified as "snippet view" by Google, so that's all I could see. It also seems to be in Songs of the Irish:
an Anthology of Irish Folk Music and Poetry
by Donal Joseph O'Sullivan (Crown Publishers, 1960).

I don't understand how the song can be both Irish and Anglo-Saxon, unless the French classify languages differently than we do.