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| '''NORA DALY.''' AKA - "[[Molly Durkin]]," "[[Musheen Durkin]]," "Nora Daley." Irish, Air (6/8 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The song was recorded (as "[[Molly Durkin]]") in 1929 by Murty Rabbett, a tin-whistle and piccolo player and singer with Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band of Boston (backed by Sullivan on piano). It was later recorded by Connie Foley (c. 1950) as "Nora Daley" and by the Clancy Brothers under the title "Musheen Durkin." Words to the song, from the singing of Micho Russell (Doolin, County Clare) go: | | '''NORA DALY.''' AKA - "[[Molly Durkin]]," "[[Musheen Durkin]]," "Nora Daley." Irish, Air or Jig (6/8 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. |
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| ''It was down near Miltown Malbay, not a thousand miles from Galway''<br>
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| ''When I was young and merry in the breezy hills of Clare,''<br>
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| ''And she driving in a donkey cart and she going to the fair.''<br>
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| ''It was mild and pleasant weather with the bloom of furze and heather''<br>
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| ''Filled my soul with gladness in the wild and balmy (?) air''<br>
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| ''And my spirits felt fair lighter, and my life seems ten times brighter''<br>
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| ''Since I met that little colleen and she going to the fair.''<br>
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| ''Says she, "I'm Nora Daly, from the parish of Kilmeally,''<br>
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| ''My father, he's a farmer and the crossest man in Clare,''<br>
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| ''If he saw you here beside me, I'm afraid that he would chide me,''<br>
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| ''So, if you please, get down and walk a bit before we reach the fair."''<br>
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| ''I reluctantly obeyed her, for I could not have gainsaid her''<br>
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| ''Her visions of her father bright with the fierce and angry glare.''<br>
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| ''So before I'd quickly started, from her I gladly parted,''<br>
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| ''But I treasured her sweet memories till we reached Miltown Malbay.''<br>
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| ''At the Four-Mile Stone I met her, and within my heart I set her,''<br>
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| ''I searched for tales or tidings of my wanderer everywhere,''<br>
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| ''Her heart was in a flutter, as she feared her eggs and butter''<br>
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| ''They'd be scattered in the roadside and she going to the fair.''<br>
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| ''After years abroad sojourning and my love still brightly burning,''<br>
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| ''I sought for her and married her and settled down in Clare.''<br>
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| ''And I ofttimes yet remind her of that day long left behind her''<br>
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| ''Since I met her in the donkey cart and she going to the fair.''<br>
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| ''I have told my little story; though aged now and hoary,''<br>
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| ''It makes me feel quite young again and puts to flight dull care.''<br>
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| ''And along with what I've told you, one more secret I'll unfold you:''<br>
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| ''That you never met more loving hearts than those in County Clare!''<br>
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NORA DALY. AKA - "Molly Durkin," "Musheen Durkin," "Nora Daley." Irish, Air or Jig (6/8 time). A Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Roche (Collection of Traditional Irish Music, vol. 1), 1912; No. 41, pp. 20-21.
Recorded sources: Green Linnet GLCD 3079, "The Russell Family of Doolin, County Clare." Rounder 1027, Murty Rabbett - "From Galway to Dublin" (appears as "Molly Durkin").
