MY LOVELY IRISH BOY

Rhythm: song
Key: Eb
Meter: C
Area: Antrim
Origin: Irish
Book: Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
History: Popular in and around Ballycastle in Antrim, about 1850.
Words:
Once I was courting a lovely Irish boy,
HE called me his honey and he said I was his joy;
He talked to me of love and he promised me to wed;
But when he found my money gone my lovely boy fled.

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