Girl from Clahandine

DESCRIPTION: Before the singer leaves for America he bids his friends adieu and tearfully leaves his girl. He finds no one in America as true or kind as the girl he left behind. When he has enough gold he'll return to marry her and settle in a cottage in Clahandine.
AUTHOR: Tom Flanagan (source: notes to IRClare01)
EARLIEST DATE: 1974 (IRClare01)
KEYWORDS: poverty love parting America Ireland emigration
FOUND IN: Ireland
Roud #18474
RECORDINGS:
Michael Flanagan, "Girl from Clahandine" (on IRClare01)
NOTES [66 words]: Notes to IRClare01: ."..it has obviously been re-written from the popular 'The Girl I Left Behind' to place its location around North Clare. Saint Bridget's Well [he was born near there] is at Liscannor a few miles south of Luogh."
The verse structure, final line of two verses, and a few other lines follow Laws P1A but the story line does not follow any "The Girl I Left Behind" that I know. - BS
File: RcGiFCla

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