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Thread #5387 Message #30881
Posted By: Mick Lowe
16-Jun-98 - 06:11 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Where the Blarney Roses Grow
Subject: Lyr Add: Blarney Roses^^
Volume four of "Folksongs & Ballads popular in Ireland" gives the following version:
Chorus: Can anybody tell me where the Blarney Roses grow? It may be down in Limerick town or over in Mayo It's somewhere in the Em'rald Isle but this I want to know Can anybody tell me where the Blarney Roses grow?
Verses: Twas over in ould Ireland near the town of Cushendall One morn I met a damsel there, the fairest of them all Twas with my young affections and my money did she go And she told me she belonged to where the Blarney Roses grow
Her cheeks were like the roses, her hair a raven hue Before that she was done with me, she had me raving too She left me sorely stranded, not a coin she left you know And she told me she belonged to where the Blarney Roses grow
They've roses in Killarney, and the same in County Clare But 'pon my word those roses, boys, I can't see anywhere She blarney'd me and by the powers she left me broke ho, ho Did this damsel that belonged to where the Blarney Roses grow
Acushla gra-machree me boys, she murmured soft did she "If you belong to Ireland, it's yourself belongs to me" Her Donegal come-all-ye-brogue, it captured me you know Bad scram to her and that same place, where the Blarney Roses grow.
Needless to say you stick the chorus in after every verse. Happy singing and mind the thorns