School: Gaduidhe Dubh (C.)
- Location:
- Gaddyduff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cáitlín Ní Mhiothagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1121, Page 192
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“You maidens of beauty I'm one that's forlorn, I carelessly wandered so far from my home ...”
I
You maidens of beauty I'm one that's forlorn,
I carelessly wandered so far from my home,
Im off by the moonlight to the day break of morning
Im found on the mountains of Dark Innishowen.
II
I strayed round the place of the once called Clonmany
In search of a fair one who might be my own.
But a maid for to love me I could not find any,
From Mindoran Bridge to the Gap of Mamore.
III
No wonder Im lonely since I left her dwelling,
No wonder her absence I here do make known,
When I think on that green spot the land of that rare on
I pine for my true love in Dark Innishowen.
IV
But distance drives us in dreams I caress her
I think myself as happy as if I were at home.
When I think on that vision that bade me carress her
To a bosom thats pining around Dark Innishowen.
V
But now I am stationed in the Co. Fermanaugh
I left my we darling with her parents at home
And if ere I return it will be to marry,
That lovely wee lassies in Dark Innishowen.
- Collector
- Bridie Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloghfin, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- William Grant
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloghfin, Co. Donegal