The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #58248   Message #921311
Posted By: Charley Noble
29-Mar-03 - 02:22 PM
Thread Name: cranberry isles
Subject: RE: cranberry isles
Well, there is one song from our Cranberry Isles which may have been based on the one you're interested in but it's all now a local story with not a diamond to be seen (from Minstrelsy of Maine):

There was a wealth Irishman
On Cranberry Isles did dwell,
He had a handsome daughter,
Old Joe he loved her well.

Chorus:

And sing ti-re-um, sing tu-re-um,
Sing ti-ro-edle-o-a.

With many more verses about an older man marrying a much younger woman.

Not very helpful, I'm afraid.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble