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Posted By: Richie
23-May-16 - 07:39 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Molly Bawn (Polly Vaughn)
Subject: Lyr Add: MOLLY BANN
Hi,

This excerpt from a version in Ulster Folklife - Volume 18 - Page 37
1972 which has the names and place

[6th]
The maids of this country they are all very glad
Since Molley Bann Lavery the beauty is dead,
But gather them together and put them all in a row:
She appears in the middle like a mountain of snow.

[7th]
She appeared to her uncle as it were in a dream
Saying, — Uncle, dear uncle, James Reynolds don't blame;
With my apron being about me he took me for a cran,
But oh and alas, it was I, Molley Bann!

[8th]
In Lisburn she was born and in Lurgan educated
But oh, in Kilwarlin poor Molley was defeated!
With her apron being about her she was taken for a cran,
But oh and alas, it was poor Molley Bann!

It also has the "But oh and alas" from which Gentry (see footnote 2) has distorted in her version in Appalachia.

Richie