Nelly of the Top-Knots

DESCRIPTION: "Dear God, were I a fisher and back in Binedar, And Nelly a fish..." he would try to net her. He begs her not to flee him. He promises faithfulness. If he could find her, he would "coax her so well, I would tell he my story, And talk till I won her"
AUTHOR: Words: Douglas Hyde (source: Lyra Celtica)
EARLIEST DATE: 1893 (Hyde, Abhráin grádh chúige Connacht)
KEYWORDS: love courting fishing
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 284-284, "Nelly of the Top Knots" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Elizabeth A. Sharp, editor, with introduction and notes by WIlliam Sharp, _Lyra Celtica: An Anthology of Representative Celtic Poetry_, Patrick Geddes and Colleagues, Edinburgh, 1896 (available on Google Books), p. 130, "Nelly of the Top-Knots" (1 text)
Douglas Hyde, _Abhráin grádh chúige Connacht, or, Love songs of Connacht_, T. F. Unwin, 1893 (available on Google Books), p. 108n, "Nelly of the Top-Knots" (1 excerpt)
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NOTES [14 words]: For background on the work of Douglas Hyde, see the notes to "My Own Dark Maiden." - RBW
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