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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

Mick