This is a very fine song which I have not found on DT or in a forum (maybe I still don't have search strategy down. Will provide an ABC if I can ever figure it out; so far it seems a bit intimidating.

KATHLEEN

Traditional

I'm in love with a charming young colleen
She's the fairest young creature on Earth.
She's a gem of the very first water,
And I'm proud that she's Irish by birth.

Kathleen, so fair and bright.
Star of e'en and darkest night.
In shady groves
and meadows green,
I love to roam with you Kathleen!

We are going to be married next Sunday,
If the old folks will give us away,
And the bells of the church will be ringing,
And the boys and the girls shout, hurray!

My father, he boasts not of riches,
He has a neat little farm all his own.
He digs his own potatoes at home,
And he lives in the county Tyrone.

Sung by Margaret Barry (Irish Tinker Lady) at Dundalk, 1952.
Recorded by Peter Kennedy. Available on SayDisc, Songs of the Travelling [sic] People. ^^