Twas pretty to be in Ballinderry, song / Paddy Tunney, singing in English
| ITMA Reference | 239784 |
| Creator | Tunney, Paddy, singing in English |
| Contributor | Shields, Hugh, collector |
| Date | September 1962 |
| Location | Hugh Shields’s house, Dublin |
| Type | Sound |
| Extent | 1 computer file (MP3 file, 1 min., 33 sec.) : digital, stereo |
| Collection | Hugh Shields Collection |
| Subject | Ireland: Singing in English |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Irish Traditional Music Archive |
| Copyright | Performers, Hugh Shields |
| Source | [HS 6104] |
| Roud Number | 2983 |
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’Twas pretty to be in Ballinderry
’Twas pretty to be in Aghalee
’Twas pretty to be in little Ram’s island
In trysting under the ivy tree
Ochone, ochone, ochone, ochone
’Twas pretty to be in Ballinderry
But now it’s sad as sad can be
For the ship that sailed with Phelim my lover
Is sunk forever beneath the sea
Ochone, ochone, ochone, ochone
And oh that I wear the weeping willow
To wander alone by the lonesome billow
And cry to him over the cruel sea
Oh Phelim, my lover, come back to me.
Ochone, ochone, ochone, ochone.
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As sung by the late Robert Cinnamond, Glenavy, Co Antrim. Ballinderry and Aghalee are in south Antrim; Ram’s island is in Lough Neagh.
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