Dark Girl of the Valley, The

DESCRIPTION: "Upon the mountain brow I herd a lowing cow," but as he works, he cries for the Dark Girl. He is poor. He might get a wife in Leinster or Munster. But the Dark Girl of the Valley exceeds them all; even the "moon does obeisance with love to her"
AUTHOR: Translated by Douglas Hyde?
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Hyde, Abhráin grádh chúige Connacht)
KEYWORDS: love poverty
FOUND IN: US(MA)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, pp. 284-285, "The Dark Girl of the Valley" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Douglas Hyde, _Abhráin grádh chúige Connacht, or, Love songs of Connacht_, T. F. Unwin, 1905 (available on Google Books), p. 115, "The Dark Girl of the Valley" (1 text, apparently with an Irish original)
Roud #15016
NOTES [53 words]: For the curious relationship between this and "My Own Dark Maiden," both printed by Shoemaker-MountainMinstrelsyOfPennsylvania, see the notes to "My Own Dark Maiden." There is much reason to doubt that either one is traditional.
For background on the work of Douglas Hyde, again see the notes to "My Own Dark Maiden." - RBW
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