Rose Of Allendale (Paddy Reilly) with lyrics and two videos

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Rose Of Allendale (Paddy Reilly) with lyrics and two videos

#963: YouTube video by IrishandFolkmusic ©2009.
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Oh the sky was clear, the mornin' fair, not a breath came over the sea,
When Mary left her highland home and wandered forth with me;
All the flowers decked the mountain side and fragrance filled the vale,
By far the sweetest flower there, was the Rose of Allendale.

Sweet Rose of Allendale, sweet Rose of Allendale;
By far the sweetest flower there, was the Rose of Allendale.

Where e'er I wander to the east and to the west, and fate begins to lower,
Some solace too was she to me in sorrow's lonely hour;
Oh, the tempest wrecked my lonely boat and rent the quivering sail,
One maiden form withstood the storm, 'twas the Rose of Allendale.

Sweet Rose of Allendale, sweet Rose of Allendale;
One maiden form withstood the storm, 'twas the Rose of Allendale.

And when my fevered lips were parched on Africa's burning sand,
She whispered hopes of happiness and dreams of foreign land;
My life has been a wilderness, unblessed by fortune or gain,
Had fate not linked my love to her, the Rose of Allendale.

Sweet Rose of Allendale, sweet Rose of Allendale;
Had fate not linked my love to her, sweet Rose of Allendale.

####.... Variant of Rose Of Allandale published in 1835 - words: Charles H. Jeffreys [1807-1865] music: Sidney Nelson [1800-1862] ....####

The YouTube video above features a 1982 live performance by Paddy Reilly recorded for RTÉ's Festival Folk from the National Stadium, Dublin, Ireland.

Also published without a date by an unknown printer as a broadside ballad, The Rose Of Allandale, and archived in The Murray Collection of the Glasgow Broadside Ballads, shelfmark: mu23y1118.

A variant was collected by Gale Huntington (Songs The Whalemen Sang, pp.257-260, as published in the 1847 Journal of William Histed of the Cortes, Barre Publishers, Barre, Massachusetts, 1964; reprinted by Dover Publications, 1970).

A variant was also recorded at Great Big Studio, St. John's, NL, by the Irish Descendants (Blooming Bright Star. trk#10, 2001, Sextant Records, Markham, Ontario, and produced by Derek Harrington).

The YouTube video below features a live performance of a variant by Jesse Ferguson of Cornwall, Ontario, Fredericton, New Brunswick, and Sydney, Nova Scotia.

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