X:328
T:My Lovely Irish Boy
B:Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
R:song
H:Popular in and around Ballycastle in Antrim, about 1850.
A:Antrim
O:Irish
W:Once I was courting a lovely Irish boy,
W:HE called me his honey and he said I was his joy;
W:He talked to me of love and he promised me to wed;
W:But when he found my money gone my lovely boy fled.
L:1/8
M:C
Z:Allan Garvin
K:Eb
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