Lyr Req: Kathleen Ashore (Kathleen Asthore)

Subject: Lyr Req: Kathleen Ashore
From: GUEST,Loretta Simonet
Date: 04 Aug 03 - 08:02 PM

Does anyone have the lyrics for "Kathleen Ashore" ??
I have searched many databases, and can't find them anywhere!
Don't need the music, just the lyrics.

Thanks!
Loretta

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kathleen Ashore
From: Snuffy
Date: 04 Aug 03 - 08:15 PM

Someone called Jackie Luke has recorded Kathleen Asthore (note the extra 'T') details here

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kathleen Ashore
From: masato sakurai
Date: 04 Aug 03 - 09:08 PM

Is this a different song? An edition is found at Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads.

KATHLEEN ASTHORE
Printer: March, R. and Co. (London)
Date: between 1877 and 1884
Printer's Series: (Portrait Series [Fred. Harvey] ; 4).
Illus. Ballads on sheet: 23
Note: The illustration is coloured. See Firth b.28(1a) for imprint. With a poem, an advertisement, and toasts. Stamped: Bodleian Library, 22 April, 1918   
Copies: Firth b.28(2)

4. Kathleen, asthore ("In an old Irish home sat an old Irish farmer ...")
Performer: Macnally, Jessie
Subject: Emigration - Irish

Subject: Lyr Add: KATHLEEN, ASTHORE
From: masato sakurai
Date: 04 Aug 03 - 10:49 PM

The Bodleian version transcribed.

             KATHLEEN, ASTHORE
             Sung by Jessie Macnally.
             Music published by Sheard & Co., London.

In an old Irish home sat an old Irish farmer,
His head bowed in sorrow, his eyes filled with tears;
He was thinking that night of the light-hearted colleen
He sent from the homestead, in long by-gone years.
In the hush of the twilight the past comes unto him:
Again at his knee now her night prayer is said;
The heart-broken father, alone in the gloaming,
Cries out in his anguish to her who has fled--

                   Chorus.
"Kathleen Mavourneen, why do you roam
In the land of strangers, over the bounding foam?
The old man is waiting your face again to see.
Come back Mavourneen, Acushla Machree!"

"It is ten years to-day since with Kathleen I parted,"
The old man exclaimed, in a heart-broken voice;
"And I drove her with curses away from the old home,
Because she had married the boy of her choice.
I have fame, and I've wealth, but I've no one to love me,
The old wife has gone, and I am left here alone;
I'd give all I had for a sigh of my darling,
To say, I forgive you, my Kathleen! my own!"

                            Chorus.

When the church bells were ringing the glad Christmas tidings.
Sweet Kathleen returned from the land o'er the main;
By the grave of her mother the past was forgiven,
And she with her father united again.
In the old Irish home now is oft heard the laughter
Of children, who with their old grandfather play;
He blesses the children, the husband, the mother,
For Kathleen's come home, and he's no cause to say--

         Chorus.--"Kathleen Mavourneen," &c.

Words are different from KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN in the DT and
in the forum.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kathleen Ashore
From: masato sakurai
Date: 04 Aug 03 - 11:21 PM

This may not be related, but there's a song sheet titled "Dermot Astore" (not Asthore; H. De Marsan, Publisher, 38 Chatham Street, N.Y. [n. d.]) at America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets (Library of Congress), which is subtitled "Reply to Kathleen Mavourneen." Click here.

Sheet music is at Levy.

Title: Dermot Astore. The Reply to Kathleen Mavourneen.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Words by Mrs. Crawford. Music by F. Nichols Crouch.
F. Nichols Crouch Publication: Philadelphia: E. Ferrett & Co., No. 68 South Fourth Street, 1845.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Oh! Dermot Astore! between waking and sleeping, I heard thy dear voice
First Line of Chorus: Oh! Dermot Astore! between waking and sleeping, I heard thy dear voice

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kathleen Ashore
From: GUEST,Loretta Simonet
Date: 05 Aug 03 - 01:37 AM

Thank you for all the info!!! - Loretta

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kathleen Ashore (Kathleen Asthore)
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 16 Feb 04 - 06:44 PM

G'day Snuffy,

It just shows how these Irish songs wander: Jackie Luke is a New Zealander ... now living in and singing/playing (hammered dulcimer and [~ ... small 6-stringed] Irish bouzouki) in Sydney.

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Kathleen Ashore (Kathleen Asthore)
From: Snuffy
Date: 16 Feb 04 - 07:36 PM

G'day Bob

Small world! But we get there in the end