Lyr Req: Because I Love You So, McCree

Subject: Because I Love You So, McCree
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Mar 02 - 01:25 PM

Copied from another thread. If you find the song, please e-mail lyrics to requestor. -Joe Offer-

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Thread #44989 Message #663675 Posted By: GUEST,[e-mail] 06-Mar-02 Thread Name: Irish Lyrics (answered)^^^ Subject: RE: Irish Lyrics (answered)^^^

I'm desparately looking for the lyrics to the song: "because I love you so Mccree."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Because I Love You So, McCree
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Mar 02 - 01:33 PM

Because i love you so Machree, sorry I haven`t all the words. But poor oul McCree whoever he is ain`t involved. Paddy Joe.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Because I Love You So, McCree
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 06 Mar 02 - 01:51 PM

Written by somebody called McNulty, it seems, probably 1860s/70s (if it's the same McNulty), probably in the USA; that's all I've found.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Because I Love You So, McCree
From: MartinRyan
Date: 06 Mar 02 - 05:17 PM

Malcolm

I see references to sheet music, with McNulty for the words and one Tom Madden for the music. Also a quote as to it being "From the emormously successful musical extravaganza The King of Dublin " - of which I've never heard! Little sign of dates - apart from one edition in 1928 - which I agree sounds too late to be the first.

Regards

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Because I Love You So, McCree
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 02:54 PM

This song had many an airing in Ireland in the 1940`s, sorry I can

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Because I Love You So, McCree
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Mar 02 - 03:19 PM

"Because I Love You So, Machree" was recorded by Frank Ryan on a 78rpm record, sometime between 1930 and 1948, and has been reissued on a CD called Angels Guard Thee. Authorship was credited to someone named McNulty.

It was also recorded by Louis Browne on CD called "Irish Tenor Favorites."

Sheet Music Warehouse has this entry:
Title: Because I Love You So
Author: W&M: E McNulty, T Madden
Description: ©.1928, V Good.
Price: £5.00
Category: 1920's
Stock Reference Number: 2236

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Because I Love You So, McCree
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 09 Mar 02 - 04:21 PM

Likely a later McNulty than the one I found, then; he was William E. McNulty, and active as a songwriter 50 years or so earlier.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Because I love you so, machree
From: GUEST,Philippa
Date: 10 Mar 02 - 03:33 PM

"machree" is from the Irish language endearment "mo chroí", meaning "my heart"