The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #24830   Message #822590
Posted By: rich-joy
10-Nov-02 - 12:26 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Generous Lover
Subject: RE: My generous lover - sources
My 1968 Argo recording of Frankie Armstrong singing it ("The Female Frolic" with Peggy Seeger and Sandra Kerr) says :

" ... The singing is from Mary Hackett of Limerick, the text is part collated from The Irish Folk Song Journal. A. L. Lloyd collected the song from Mary Hackett in Dublin in 1947. Although variants of the tune have turned up since in Ireland, no other set of the words has been found. "

Surprisingly, the copious sleeve notes are not credited, but one suspects Lloyd ...

I'll submit the lyrics in a short while.
Cheers! R-J