Mount Massey the Flower of Macroomwn

DESCRIPTION: The singer "must roam far away from my home And sail o'er the wide raging sea" but hopes to return to the place he grew up, to his friends "and that colleen that dearly loves me"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1956 (OCroinin/Cronin-TheSongsOfElizabethCronin)
KEYWORDS: homesickness courting love emigration separation dancing Ireland lover
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
OCroinin/Cronin-TheSongsOfElizabethCronin 93, "Mount Massey the Flower of Macroomwn" (1 text)
Roud #16249
File: OCC093

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