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Thread #48816   Message #734994
Posted By: The Pooka
22-Jun-02 - 10:39 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Dawning of the Day
Subject: Lyr Add: DAWNING OF THE DAY
That 18th century unexpurgated version sounds similar to the Newfoundland version (#2) in the DT:

Oh I said my handsome fair maid, it's me you must excuse
For to join in wedlock bands with you my dear I must refuse
For I being lately married to a girl from Moultry Bay
And with her I have five thousand pounds at the dawning of the day

Now for an Expurgated edition, with a note (at bottom) re its sources,
Click here

(Recorded by Makem & Clancy on the album "Two For the Early Dew"; Shanachie.)