Oh the Shamrock

DESCRIPTION: "Through Erin's isle, To sport awhile, As Love and Valour wander'd, With Wit the sprite, Whose quiver bright A thousand arrows squander'd....
O the shamrock! The green immortal shamrock! Chosen leaf of bard and chief -- Old Erin's native shamrock!
AUTHOR: Thomas Moore
EARLIEST DATE: 1863 (Moore's Irish Melodies)
KEYWORDS: Ireland nonballad | shamrock
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 148, "O the shamrock, the green immortal shamrock" (1 text)
Hylands-Mammoth-Hibernian-Songster, p. 81, "Through Erin's Isle" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #37293
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Alley Croker" (tune, according to Hylands-Mammoth-Hibernian-Songster)
NOTES [19 words]: Very widely printed, but if there are any traditional versions other than Alice Kane's, I am unaware of them. - RBW
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File: KSUC148A

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