She lived beside the Anner sung by Sean O` Se

Irieh song She lived beside the Anner [Charles Kickham]



Oh she lived beside The Anner
at the foot of Slievenamon
a gentle Irish colleen
with mild eyes like the dawn
her cheeks were dewy rosebuds
and her teeth were pearls rare
a snowdrift 'neath the beechen bough
her neck and long brown hair

oh happy was to see her
on a Sunday when the bell
was filling with it's mellow tone
lone wood and grassy dell
and when at eve young maidens
strolled the Anner banks along
the widow's brown-haired daughter
was the lov'liest of the throng

oh brave, brave Irish colleens
we well may call yee brave
for the least of all your perils
are the stormy ocean waves
when you leave your quiet valleys
and cross the Atlantic foam
to hoard your hard-won earnings
for the helpless ones at home

send word to my dear mother
that we'll meet in heav'n above
and tell my little brother
I send him all my love
may the angels ever guard him
was the dying sister's prayer
and folded in the letter
was a braid of nut-brown hair

oh cold and sallow now
my weary heart has grown
for all thy troubles Ireland
and for sorrows of my own
yet with tears my eyes will moisten
when by Anner banks I stray
for The Lilly of the Mountain Brook
who withered far away

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• Irish
• song
• Charles
• Kickham
• Tipperary

[lorgain2]

ciorcalomhra, go raibh maith agut,

[lorgain2]

Ganjus, from a great song-writer, and Sean O`Se does the song justice, thanks for the comment.

[lorgain2]

Na h`ahair sin, my pleasure, now Charles Kickham would have liked this rendition, thanks.

[lorgain2]

A real tear jerker from Sean O`Se,

Chesterton was right all our wars were merry and all our love songs were sad.

[lneranger4]

This was one of my fathers favourite songs,i never heard all of it before,ive just found it, im crying..

[Sshelly34213]

Cool, thanks for posting! Would you happen to have Barley grain by him?

[GALAFOUNDATION]

Seán O'Se became the voice of O Riada's ensemble, which also included Paddy Moloney and other musicians who soon afterward formed the Chieftains, moving Irish music onto the world stage. O'Se's renditions of classic ballads like Carrickfergus are known and loved throughout Ireland and today he continues an active schedule of performing and recording. He is an Irish treasure!

[ciorcalcomhra]

iontach maith nixy ard mhach'

[Ganjus]

Maybe its the booze but that brought a tear to me eye!  Cheers and thanks for posting!

[faruasal]

another winner, or as they say over here "a home run". go dtuga Dia fairsinge do chroi i gconai duit