None Can Love Like an Irishman

DESCRIPTION: "The turban'd Turk, who scorns the world, May strut about with his whiskers curled" and have a thousand wives, but he can't love like an Irishman. Neither can the French, the Dutch, the English....
AUTHOR: "Collins," according to Sandburg-TheAmericanSongbag
EARLIEST DATE: 1828 (The Universal Songster, according to Steele)
KEYWORDS: love courting nonballad
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Sandburg-TheAmericanSongbag, p. xiii, "None Can Love Like an Irishman" (1 text)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
The Turbaned Turk He Scorns the World
File: Sandxiii

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