Lyr. Add: THE HAGGERTYS AND YOUNG MULVANNY
Tune: Youghal Harbour (Irish). Coll. in Quebec

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One pleasant evening as I did wander
When the trees and blossoms were all in bloom,
And the pleasant odor from off the treetops
Did scent the air with its sweet perfume,
All nature seemed to be early smiling.
The forest's green leaves were spreading wide,
And the branching shadows from sprouting treetops
Did burst the meadows from every side.
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The shades of evening did streak the landscape,
The silvery moon did appear in view,
And beyond the crest of yon green-topped mountain
Where the setting sun bid each scene adieu.
My thoughts did wander to seek some pleasure
As e'er those fields grew more dim each day;
At yonder forest I gazed in silence
Where nature shines her last gleam of ray.
3
I spied a maiden in melancholy:
She wrang her hands, weeping in despair,
And the mournful cries of this youthful damsel
Re-echoed loud through the balmy air,
For to greet the name of her own dear brother
In deep despair she did recall,
And the crystal teardrops as they descended
Did moist the earth on which they did fall.
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My curiosity it was excited
To find the cause of her grief and woe,
And by enquiring from this fair damsel
Her sad reply soon gave me to know
That her tears did fall for young Mulvanny,
Who lost his life on the Kipawa Stream:
Both great and humble by all who knew him,
He never failed to gain esteem.
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Three brave young hearts on the stream did perish,
Her own dear brother being one of these,
And the other two being sons of a widow
Who I'll inform you were Haggertys.
Their reckless deeds caused their own destruction.
Being prompt and ready at every call,
They were the first of the crew selected
To guide that boat o'er the waterfall.
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With hearts undaunted and courage equal
They did attempt this rash deed to do.
Unconscious were they and also careless
Of the event they were to ensue,
And as they steered her with noble courage,
Their fatal dangers not understood.
They were capsized by a raging billow
And soon engulfed in that mighty flood.
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With anxious eyes watching every motion
Till in a mist they were lost to gaze,
A spray ascending from off the torrent
And rising up in a smoke-like haze.
Their sympathizing friends stood all around them
The scenes of horror from shore to view,
Till the cruel billows closed o'er their bodies,
And from this world caused them bid adieu.
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The whole raft's crew did that day assemble
To search the bottom from shore to shore
Beneath the foot of those noisy rapids
Where surging waters do steadily roar.
And as they searched in the still clear water,
Which was only ruffled by a summer's breeze,
The first result of their eager searching
Was finding two of the Haggertys.
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And not long after they found Mulvanny:
Beneath the green leaves his body lay,
With little pebbles lying all around him,
And little fishes all around him played.
Prostrated low in the sandy bottom
Where nothing dwelt but the fiendish brood,
His curly locks were surging the waters
Moved all around by the restless flood.
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Not far away up the distant river
Their graves were dug by the rolling tide
Beneath the branches of swaying treetops
Moved by the breezes from every side.
Yes, far away up that distant river
No sound could reach any mother's ear,
And raindrops fell on them from the branches
Instead of parents' lamenting tears.
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Now melancholy each autumn season
Will be renewed by the changing woods,
And trees and flowers resume their pleasure
And drop their dry leaves like warriors' blood.
Brown and withered and drooping downward
Those virgin green leaves forever lost,
So were those young men cut down while blooming
Just like the flowers of an early frost.

The song is also called "The Kipawa Stream." It was inspired by romantic Irish ballads.
The story was told of how Jimmy the Duck pulled his boat into an eddy to bail but Haggerty and Mulvannon failed to stop to do so and went to their deaths.

First heard from a woman in Calabogie, four stanzas printed in the Renfrew Advance (1963) and later heard from other singers in Quebec. The complete song was taken from a notebook compiled by the sister of Lennox Gavan of Quyon, Quebec.
The Kipawa River drains Lake Kipawa into the Ottawa River
north of Timiskaming.