AIleen Mavourneen

DESCRIPTION: "He tells me he loves me, and can I believe, The heart he has won he can wish to deceive." He promised, when he left her, to love her. She hopes she may soon again hear him say, "Aileen mavourneen achushlamachree."
AUTHOR: Words: Mrs. S. C. Hall / Music: A. D. Roche (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: before 1847 (sheet music)
KEYWORDS: love courting separation
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
JennieEngelsDearLittleShamrockSongster, pp. 62-63, "Aileen Mavourneen" (1 text)
Hylands-Mammoth-Hibernian-Songster, p. 7, "Aileen, Mavourneen" (1 text)
Roud #34413
NOTES [81 words]: The sheet music of this, which the Library of Congress web site says was published by A. Fiot of Philadelphia (who operated 1840-1846) has to be one of the ugliest things I've ever heard. There is a woodcut of a young but not very pretty woman. The text is eight lines long, and uses eight different font families, most of them illegible. The song was evidently popular, but it can't have been because of the appearance of the music! Nor, for that matter, the rather tangled words. - RBW
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