Lack of 'kind' I have always taken to mean she did not come of a 'good' family ~ kind=kindred here, surely?

I wonder why so many singers leave out that vital 3rd verse of Colum's ~~ the one with the 'great sorrow', the goods & gear', the 'last that I saw of my dear' ~~ including Margaret Barry, who, asked in an interview by Karl Dallas whether she had learned it from family? other travellers? ... replied simply, "Oh no, I got it off a gramophone record by Count John McCormack" - who also, obviously, omitted it; and more recently Méav of Celtic Woman, who I imagine will have got it from one of these sources. Seems a shame that verse should vanish into the ewigkeit. I recall that Bob Davenport, way back when I first heard him in about 1956, sang only vv 1,2,4 also.

If you want it as a ringtone, you can get it by googling the lyrics of Belfast Child by Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, who wrote this 1989 chart-topping song to the tune of She Moved, which he first heard at about the time of the Enniskellen bombings. Not sure if I find this an iniquitous impertinence or an encouraging manifestation of an ongoing tradition! (And much the same re Rosamund Lehmann's having called her introspective memoir The Swan In The Evening.)

~M~