THE SAILOR GIRL
From Songs of Old Ireland with words by Alfred Perceval Graves, and music arranged by Charles Villiers Stanford
The words were suggested by a popular ballad in Dr. Joyce's Collection of Irish Music.
* (Wild Geese) The popular name given to the Irish who followed Sarsfield into the Low Countries after the Capitulation of Limerick.
† My heart's own boy.
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