Lyr Req: When My Love and I Parted

Subject: When my love and I parted
From: GUEST,JM
Date: 11 Apr 02 - 10:17 AM

I am looking for information and lyrics about this song. I think the title is "When my love and I parted". In one of the last verses there is something like "his heart is like a river and mine the sea". I do not remember where I heard it, but it had a beautiful tune.

Can anyone help me?

Thank you. Jenny

Subject: Lyr Add: The Parting
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Apr 02 - 10:42 AM

THE PARTING
Mary O'Hara

When my love and I parted, the wind blew cold
When my love and I parted, our love untold
How my heart kept crying, 'love come with me,
But he turned from me and sought the sea

When my love and I parted, we shed no tears
Though we knew that between us lay weary years
And a bird was singing upon a tree
And a gleam of sunlight lay on the sea

Parting is bitter and weeping vain
And all true lovers will meet again
And no fate can sever my love from me
For his heart is the river and mine, the sea

From:http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Location/6553/main.html

This it?

Subject: RE: When my love and I parted
From: GUEST,JM
Date: 12 Apr 02 - 09:20 AM

Thank you Sorcha! This is it!

Jenny

Subject: RE: When my love and I parted
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Apr 02 - 09:33 AM

(Get Google, it works!

Subject: RE: When my love and I parted
From: GUEST,Noreen
Date: 14 Apr 02 - 02:21 PM

Pretty sure it's not written by Mary O'Hara, though.

Subject: RE: When my love and I parted
From: GUEST,Angun
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 02:09 PM

Anyone that knows anything more about this song?

Angun

Subject: RE: When my love and I parted
From: Willa
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 06:02 PM

Mary O'Hara sang it on
Irish Traditional Folk Songs Mary O'Hara
28. The Parting
Celtic Music Distribution (Audio CD)
ie, that suggests it is traditional, but I've not been able to find any more refs to it.

Subject: RE: When my love and I parted
From: Noreen
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 09:29 AM

Thanks, Willa. I heard it as an Irish traditional song, sung by (I think) Rosie Stewart.

Would love to find out more about this beautiful song.

Subject: RE: When my love and I parted
From: GUEST,Angun
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 06:27 PM

Thank you Willa and Noreen! It is also recorded by Deirdre Scanlan and Solas on their CD "The Hour Before Dawn". Her source is Rita Gallagher from Co. Donegal, and she had it from a collector called Charlie Herron.

Angun

Subject: RE: When my love and I parted
From: Noreen
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 06:50 PM

Rita Gallagher it was, Angun! Anything more?

Subject: RE: When my love and I parted
From: GUEST,Angun
Date: 14 Aug 02 - 07:19 PM

Noreen,have you heard it sung by Rita Gallagher?

Angun