Fairies, The (Up the Airy Mountain)

DESCRIPTION: "Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren’t go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together...." "They stole little Bridget For seven long years, When she came back, Her friends were all gone...."
AUTHOR: Willam Allingham (1824-1889)
EARLIEST DATE: 1883 (publication of the book "The Fairies")
KEYWORDS: magic abduction hunting royalty | fairies
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 178, "They stole little Bridget" (1 fragment)
ADDITIONAL: Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 509-510, "The Fairies"
Roud #12969
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Charlie Is My Darling" (lyrics, form)
NOTES [30 words]: Roud for some reason lumps this with "All the Men in Our Town." I don't see it. The link to "Charlie Is My Darling" is more obvious; it is reported to have inspired Allingham.- RBW
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File: KSUC178B

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