Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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77 pre-1850 Printed garland of song lyrics‘The Sprig of Shilelagh’, ‘The Brides mistake at meeting her mother-in-law’ and ‘My Native Home’. ‘O Love is the soul of a neat Irishman, He loves all the lovely and loves all that he can, With is Sprig of Shilelagh and Shamrock so green…’ (The Sprig of Shilelagh) ‘Girls did you hear how the old woman treats their daughter-in-laws How sweet they will be on them until they ge[t] them in their claws…’. (The Brides Mistake...) ‘O’er breezy hill or woodland glade… The wretch in sadness shall roam Who wanders from his native home’. (My Native Home) Printed by W.Kelly, Waterford. 9pp 78 pre-1850 Printed garland of song lyrics, ‘The Burial of General Sir John Moore’, ‘Darby Kelly O!’ and ‘The Old Miser and the Young Wife’. ‘Not a drum was heard not a funeral note, As his corpse to the rampart we hurried…’ (General Sir John Moore)

‘My grandsire beat a drum so neat, His name was Darby Kelly, O… When Marlbro’s name first rais’d his fame… At Blenheim he and Ramillie…’ (Darby Kelly O!) ‘I am a poor miser both old and lame

And out of Northumberland county I came I married a young damsel about twenty-one And the very day after my sorrows began…’. (The Old Miser and the Young Wife) Printed by W.Kelly, Waterford. 9pp

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