Pluírín na mBan Donn Óg, singer Éilís Kennedy and Peter Blanchette, archguitar

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This is a demo recording made of my arrangement of an accompaniment to one of Éilís Kennedy's "Gan Tionlacan" or, Unaccompanied Songs. The original is from her Bandcamp release: https://eiliskennedy.bandcamp.com/album/gan-tionlacan-unaccompanied
Lyrics:
Plúirín na Mban Donn Óg • "The Flower of Dark young maids"

If you would come with me to the County Leitrim
O Flower of Dark young maids
I would bring you honey from the bees and mead to drink
O Flower of Dark young maids
I would bring the breeze from ships and sails and boats
From the tops of the waves as we return from the strand
I would let no sadness near you
O Flower of Dark young maids

O I won’t go along with you and do not be asking
Said the Flower of Dark young maids
For your words would not keep me alive without food
Said the Flower of Dark young maids
I would rather a thousand times to be without a man forever
Than to walk the dew and the woods with you
For my heart has not given you love or affection
Said the Flower of Dark young maids

O I saw her come towards me through the hills
Like a little shining star through the mist
And I was conversing and talkibg with her
Till we reached the pasture of cows
We sat down in a little bower
And I gave her a note written by my hand
That no wrong she would do for which I would not pay
For the Flower of Dark young maids

My grief and woe that I am not entwined
With the Flower of Dark young maids
By ties of love which never would be broken
By the Flower of Dark young maids
I would never ask for more
But to play and laugh as our hearts desired
Hard fortune if I do not gain the love of
the Flower of Dark young maids.

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