The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #152099   Message #3556349
Posted By: Jim Carroll
05-Sep-13 - 12:24 PM
Thread Name: Irish? Sez who? and why?
Subject: RE: Irish? Sez who? and why?
"Now let's have one for the lovely old English song 'The Streams of Lovely Nancy'."
Will this do - recorded from blind Tipperary Traveller woman Mary Delaney?
Jim Carroll

There's A Mountain In Sligo   
Mary Delaney (tape 96)

There's a mountain in Sligo and it bears a big name,
It is dressed from the land right out to the top,
With grand arches and nice porches and two lamps burning bright,
'Twould make a lighthouse for the Travellers of a cold winters night

There was three rings on my love's fingers and there was one of them gold,
There was one in the middle and I'll break it in two,
Saying, take this lovely Betsy, from your snares you let me free,
And I brought her a road by a dark and shady grove.

( Alternative verse, tape 91)
Then I offered her silver and she offered me gold,
She proffered me more money than her apron wouldn't hold
Saying, take this lovely Betsy, from your snares you'd let me free,
And I brought her along by a dark shady grove.