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Thread #53427   Message #822229
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
09-Nov-02 - 11:06 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Yeats/Colleen Bawn
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Yeats/Colleen Bawn
You might check the midi with the DT file LIMERICK IS BEAUTIFUL, nonetheless. Colleen Bawn was an alternative title for it, though the set in the DT is Michael Scanlon's re-write of an older song, and no reference remains to the lady in question. Another form of the song appeared in Boucicault's opera The Colleen Bawn (1860), so it was pretty well-known. There are various broadside examples, published in both Ireland and England, at Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads.