Maid of Erin

This item is part of the I. G. Greer Folksong Collection which consists of more than 300 individual song titles and their variants as collected by Isaac Garfield Greer (1881-1967) from informants, primarily in Ashe, Wilkes and Watauga counties. The collection includes manuscripts, typescript transcriptions produced by Dr. Greer’s clerical staff, and handwritten musical notations. Songs range from traditional Child Ballads, traditional English and Scottish ballads as well as their American variants, to 19th century popular music to musical compositions of local origin.

Folk songs, English--Ireland

Ireland--Songs and music

Political songs and ballads

AC.113 Isaac Garfield (I.G.) Greer Papers and Recordings

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

Greer, I. G. (Isaac Garfield), 1881-1967

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The Maid, or Erin

My thoughts delight to wander,
Upon a distant shore
Where lovely, fair, and tender,
Is she whom I adore.
May heaven its blessings sparing,
On her bestow them free,
The lovely maid of Erin,
Who sweetly sang to me.

Had fortune fixed my station,
In some propitious hour,
The monarch of a nation,
Endowed with wealth and power
That wealth and power sharing,
My pureless queen should be,
The lovely maid of Erin,
Who sweetly sand to me.

Although the restless ocean,
May long between us roar,
Yet while my heart has motion,
She will long within its core
For artless and endearing ,
And mild and young is she,
The lovely maid of Erin,
Who sweetly sang to me.

When fate gives intimation,
That my last hour is nigh,
With placid resignation,
I will lay me down and die
Fond hope my bosom cheering,
That I in heaven shall see
The lovely maid of Erin,
Who sweetly sang to me.

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