Hi, Jeanie - the air used in our Digital Tradition Folk Song Database (DT) seems to be the same as the one in the Andy Irving/Paul Brady recording. The DT lyrics are different from Irvine's. Follow all the crosslinked threads above, and no doubt you'll find the lyrics used by Andy Irvine. The melody/tune/air used by Irvine and the DT can be found in Peter Kennedy's Folksongs of Britain and Ireland, #316 Derry Gaol, page 699. Kennedy collected the song from Sarah Makem in 1952.
The DT lyrics come from the Julie Henigan/Janet Russell version that Charlie Baum posted above. They certainly are not the version found in Kennedy.
THE STREETS OF DERRY (from DT)
And after morning there comes an evening,
And after evening another day,
And after false love there comes a true love,
Come listen now to what I say.
My love he is a handsome young man,
As fair as any that the sun shone on,
But how to win him I do not know,
For now he has a sentence to be hung.
As he walked out through the streets of Derry
I'm sure he stood out right manfully;
He looked more like a commanding officer
Than a man to die upon the gallow's tree.
"Oh, where's my love, she's so long in coming,
And what detains her so long from me;
Perhaps she thinks it's a shame, a scandal
For a man to die upon the gallow's tree."
He looked around and he saw her coming,
As she rode swifter than the wind;
She said, "I'll show them that they cannot hang you,
And I'll crown my love with a bunch of green."
@Irish @rebel
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