Eileen Aroon

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Whiskey, You're The Devil

from the album
"Courtin' the Ginger Lady"

On March 13, 1846

The entire village of Ballinglass, Co. Galway, around 300 people, is evicted in order to turn the land use to grazing.

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Eileen Aroon	[print]
(Trad)

I know a valley fair, Eileen Aroon I know a cottage there, Eileen Aroon Far in the valley shade I know a tender maid Flow'r of the hazel glade, Eileen Aroon Who in the song so sweet, Eileen Aroon Who in the dance so fleet, Eileen Aroon Dear are her charms to me, dearer her laughter free Dearest her constancy, Eileen Aroon Were she no longer true, Eileen Aroon What would her lover do, Eileen Aroon Fly with a broken chain, far o'er the sounding main Never to love again, Eileen Aroon Youth will in time decay, Eileen Aroon Beauty must fade away, Eileen Aroon Castles are sacked in war, chieftains are scattered far Truth is a fixed star, Eileen Aroon

In the original Gaelic version of this song there was a long tragic love story involved. In the later version written in English only the universal sentiments of love and change remain. Few finer verses have been written than that beginning, "Youth will in time decay".

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