The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs & Lyrics

Volume Two - Complete Book Text & Lyrics

Edited by CHARLES WELSH

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About This Book

This is the second part of a two volume set, Volume one is here. These volumes provide a useful research reference for those investigating Irish music. Each volume contains around 500 songs. You will probably find many familier songs here but also many more which probably have not seen the light of day for many years. These volumes were published in 1907 so all of the pieces now come under the traditional or PD category for performance purposes. Sadly no sheet music is available but I hope you enjoy what you find here.

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The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs & Lyrics, Part 2 Contents Index
Songs & Page Numbers.
Note: deduct 100 from the numbers shown to get the original page number from the book.
Inside Front Cover - 0007
Copyright Notice - 0008
Table Of Contents - 0009
Table Of Contents - 0010
Table Of Contents - 0011
Table Of Contents - 0012
Table Of Contents - 0013
Table Of Contents - 0014
Table Of Contents - 0015
Table Of Contents - 0016
Table Of Contents - 0017
Table Of Contents - 0018
Table Of Contents - 0019
Table Of Contents - 0020
Table Of Contents - 0021
Table Of Contents - 0022
Larry M'Hale - 0101
The Widow Malone - 0102
Page - 0103
The Pope He Leads a Happy Life - 0104
Page - 0105
The Exile's Return, or Morning on the Irish Coast - 0106
Page - 0107
Page - 0108
Barney O'Hea - 0109
I'm Not Myself at All - 0110
Page - 0111
Molly Carew - 0112
Page - 0113
Page - 0114
My Mother Dear - 0115
Rory O'More - 0115
Page - 0116
The Angel's Whisper - 0117
The Low-Backed Car - 0118
Page - 0119
The War-Ship of Peace - 0120
The Whistlin' Thief - 0121
Page - 0122
What Will You Do, Love ? - 0123
Widow Machree - 0124
Page - 0125
Time and the Virgin - 0126
Kate of Garnavilla - 0127
My Ambition - 0128
Sweet Chloe - 0129
A Memory - 0130
Page - 0131
The Croppy Boy - 0132
Page - 0133
The Good Ship Castle Down - 0134
Page - 0135
Page - 0136
Page - 0137
Herself and Myself - 0138
Page - 0139
O'Donnell Aboo - 0140
Page - 0141
Ah, Sweet is Tipperary - 0142
Page - 0143
Bless the Dear Old Verdant Land - 0144
Page - 0145
Ode to the Memory of Thomas Moore - 0146
Ireland - 0147
Page - 0148
Page - 0149
Waiting for the May - 0150
Page - 0151
To My Buried Rifle - 0152
Page - 0153
Arcadian - 0154
Girl of the Red Mouth - 0155
The Irish Exile - 0156
Page - 0157
Page - 0158
Page - 0159
Battle of Dundalk - 0160
Page - 0161
Page - 0162
Page - 0163
Death of the Homeward Bound - 0164
Memories - 0165
Salutation to the Celts - 0166
The Celts - 0167
Page - 0168
The Dead Antiquary O'Donovan - 0169
Page - 0170
Page - 0171
The Gobban Saor - 0172
Page - 0173
Page - 0174
Feithfailge - 0175
I-Breasil - 0176
Our Road - 0177
Shiela-ni-Gara - 0178
The Brown Wind of Connacht - 0179
The Cold Sleep of Brighidin - 0180
Page - 0181
The Passing of the Gael - 0182
Page - 0183
Thinking Long - 0184
Turlough MacSweeney - 0185
Page - 0186
A Stor, Gra Geal Mochree - 0187
My Inver Bay - 0188
Page - 0189
Page - 0190
Page - 0191
The United Brothers - 0192
The Soldier-Boy - 0193
The Bells of Shandon - 0194
Page - 0195
Page - 0196
A Vision - 0197
Page - 0198
Aldfrid's Itinerary - 0199
Page - 0200
Dark Rosaleen - 0201
Page - 0202
Page - 0203
Gone in the Wind - 0204
Page - 0205
Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan - 0206
Page - 0207
Kinkora - 0208
Page - 0209
St. Patrick's Hymn Before Tarah - 0210
Page - 0211
Page - 0212
Page - 0213
Siberia. .' - 0214
Page - 0215
The Dawning of the Day - 0216
The Grave, the Grave - 0217
The Nameless One - 0218
Page - 0219
Page - 0220
The Time of the Barmecides - 0221
Page - 0222
The Woman of Three Cows - 0223
Page - 0224
Page - 0225
Twenty Golden Years Ago - 0226
Page - 0227
Written in a Nunnery Chapel - 0228
A Budget of Paradoxes - 0229
The Valley of Shanganagh - 0229
Page - 0230
Boyhood's Years - 0231
Page - 0232
A May Love-Song - 0233
Fionnuala - 0233
The Buried Forests of Erin - 0234
Page - 0235
The Phantom Ship - 0236
Page - 0237
The Groves of Blarney - 0238
Page - 0239
Page - 0240
Page - 0241
Love's Mendicant - 0242
The Army of the Voice - 0242
The Living Chalice - 0243
The Clang of the Wooden Shoon - 0244
The First Voyage - 0245
The Kerry Dance - 0246
Page - 0247
Soon and Forever - 0248
Page - 0249
A Canadian Boat-Song - 0250
All That's Bright Must Fade - 0251
And Doth Not a Meeting Like This - 0251
Page - 0252
As Slow Our Ship - 0253
At the Mid Hour of Night - 0254
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms - 0255
Come Rest in This Bosom - 0255
Dear Harp of My Country - 0256
Fairest! Put On Awhile - 0257
Farewell! but Whenever You Welcome the Hour - 0258
Go Where Glory Waits Thee - 0259
I Knew by the Smoke - 0260
Love's Young Dream - 0261
O Breathe Not His Name - 0262
Nora Creina - 0263
O Ever Thus, From Childhood's Hour - 0264
Oft in the Stilly Night - 0264
Rich and Rare were the Gems She Wore - 0265
She is Far from the Land - 0266
Sound the Loud Timbrel - 0267
The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls - 0268
The Irish Peasant to His Mistress - 0269
The Meeting of the Waters - 0270
The Minstrel-Boy - 0271
The Song of Fionnuala - 0271
The Time I've Lost in Wooing - 0272
The Young May Moon - 0273
This World is All a Fleeting Show - 0274
Those Evening Bells - 0274
Thou Art, O God - 0275
'Tis the Last Rose of Summer - 0276
When He Who Adores Thee - 0277
Kate Kearney - 0278
Long Deserted - 0279
Page - 0280
Dark Margaret - 0281
Page - 0282
Page - 0283
Glandore - 0284
Page - 0285
Bingen on the Rhine - 0286
Page - 0287
Page - 0288
Love Not - 0289
The King of Denmark's Ride - 0290
Page - 0291
Page - 0292
Bog Cotton on the Red Bog - 0293
Page - 0294
Song - 0295
Page - 0296
Page - 0297
Loch Ina - 0298
Page - 0299
Recruiting Song For the Irish Brigade - 0300
Page - 0301
Murmurs of Love - 0302
Tipperary - 0303
Page - 0304
A Spinning Song - 0305
Guesses - 0306
Page - 0307
Rebel Song of 98 - 0308
The Irish Girl's Lament - 0309
The Humors of Donnybrook Fair - 0310
Page - 0311
Page - 0312
Page - 0313
Banish Sorrow - 0314
Mailligh Mo Stoir - 0315
Page - 0316
The Banks of Banna - 0317
I Give My Heart to Thee - 0318
Lough Bray - 0319
Dear Land - 0320
Ourselves Alone - 0321
Page - 0322
Page - 0323
Air-" Don Caesar " - 0324
The Friar of Orders Gray - 0324
Page - 0325
My Old Home - 0326
To God and Ireland True - 0327
Page - 0328
Whiskey, Drink Divine - 0329
Page - 0330
A White Rose - 0331
At Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862 - 0331
Page - 0332
Page - 0333
Page - 0334
Ensign Epps, the Color-Bearer - 0335
Mayflower - 0336
My Native Land. - 0337
Unspoken Words - 0338
Page - 0339
A Lullaby - 0340
Hush Song - 0341
Where the Primroses Grow by the Nore - 0342
Page - 0343
Page - 0344
In Exile: Australia - 0345
Page - 0346
The Irishman - 0347
Page - 0348
Ode - 0349
Song - 0350
Song - 0351
The Fountain of Tears - 0352
Page - 0353
Page - 0354
The Gray Dusk - 0355
The Sorrow of Love - 0356
The Twilight People - 0357
Erin My Queen - 0358
Post-Mortem - 0358
Page - 0359
When Your Beauty Appears - 0360
Rest - 0361
Page - 0362
Pearl of the White Breast - 0363
Ode - 0364
Page - 0365
Kathleen O'More - 0366
Page - 0367
The Call - 0368
The Prisoner of Love - 0368
Page - 0369
Andromeda - 0370
At Sea - 0370
The Kearsarge - 0371
The Skeleton at the Feast - 0372
Page - 0373
The V-a-s-e - 0374
Page - 0375
Evensong - 0376
Song of Maelduin - 0377
The Dead of Clonmacnois - 0378
The Last Desire - 0379
The Spell-Struck - 0380
To My Bicycle - 0381
Page - 0382
Ireland Shall Be Free - 0383
Page - 0384
A Call of the Sidhe - 0385
By the Margin of the Great Deep - 0386
Connla's Well - 0387
Divided - 0388
Inheritance - 0388
Janus' - 0389
Our Thrones Decay - 0390
Sacrifice - 0390
Symbolism - 0391
The Earth Spirit - 0392
The Gates of Dreamland - 0393
The Great Breath - 0394
The Memory of Earth - 0395
The Place of Rest - 0396
The Three Counselors - 0396
Rose Adair - 0397
Page - 0398
Breasting the World - 0399
Shane's Head - 0399
Page - 0400
Page - 0401
Page - 0402
Gay Provence - 0403
The Mystery - 0404
Page - 0405
Civil War - 0406
The Walker of the Snow - 0407
Page - 0408
Page - 0409
Drinking Song - 0410
Song - 0411
Song - 0411
Song - 0412
Thou Canst Not Boast - 0412
Page - 0413
A Rose Will Fade - 0414
All Souls Night - 0414
Cean Duv Deelish - 0415
The One Forgotten - 0416
Page - 0417
The Wind on the Hills - 0418
Page - 0419
After the Fianna - 0420
Deus Meus - 0421
Page - 0422
Far-Away - 0423
Irish Lullaby - 0424
Jesukin - 0425
Love's Despair - 0426
Page - 0427
Solace in Winter - 0428
The Calling - 0429
The Fair Hills of Eire - 0430
Page - 0431
The Ruined Nest - 0432
Page - 0433
The Vision of Viands - 0434
Page - 0435
Page - 0436
Things Delightful - 0437
To the Memory of Thomas Hood - 0438
Page - 0439
Corrymeela - 0440
Johneen - 0441
Lookin' Back - 0442
Marriage - 0443
Page - 0444
The Grand Match - 0445
The Song of Glen Dun - 0446
Page - 0447
The Emigrants - 0448
Page - 0449
Page - 0450
Page - 0451
Home - 0452
King Ailill's Death - 0453
Lament for King Ivor - 0454
Page - 0455
Man Octipartite - 0456
Page - 0457
The Hymn Called Saint Patrick's Breastplate - 0458
Page - 0459
Page - 0460
Page - 0461
The Banshee - 0462
Bellewstown Races - 0463
Page - 0464
The Boys of Kilkenny - 0465
Brian O'Linn - 0465
Page - 0466
By Memory Inspired - 0467
Page - 0468
Charming Judy Callaghan - 0469
Page - 0470
Colleen Rue - 0471
Page - 0472
The Croppy Boy - 0473
The Cruiskeen Lawn - 0474
Page - 0475
Cushla Ma Chree - 0476
The Dear and Darling Boy - 0476
Page - 0477
Drimmin Dubh Dheelish - 0478
The Emigrant Mother - 0479
Garryowen - 0480
Page - 0481
General Monro - 0482
Hannah Healy, the Pride of Howth - 0483
Page - 0484
The Holy Well - 0485
Page - 0486
Irish Molly O - 0487
Jenny From Ballinasloe - 0488
Page - 0489
Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye - 0490
Page - 0491
Page - 0492
Kitty of Coleraine - 0493
The Lamentation of Hugh Reynolds - 0494
Page - 0495
A Lay of the Famine - 0496
Page - 0497
The Maid of Cloghroe - 0498
Page - 0499
My Connor" - 0500
The Native Irishman - 0501
Page - 0502
Nell Flaherty's Drake - 0503
Page - 0504
Page - 0505
The Night Before Larry Was Stretched - 0506
Page - 0507
Page - 0508
Nurse's Song - 0509
Ould Orange Flute - - 0510
Page - 0511
Paddies Evermore - 0512
Page - 0513
The Rakes of Mallow - 0514
The Rose of Kenmare - 0515
Page - 0516
The Shan Van Vocht - 0517
Page - 0518
Page - 0519
Shule Aroon - 0520
Lamentation of Callaghan, Greally & Mullen - 0521
Page - 0522
The Star of Slane - 0523
Page - 0524
Trust to Luck - 0525
Page - 0526
The Twisting of the Rope - 0527
The Wearin' o' the Green - 0527
Page - 0528
Farewell - 0529
Page - 0530
Dear Old Ireland - 0531
Page - 0532
God Save Ireland - 0533
Page - 0534
Page - 0535
Fairy Gold - 0536
Longing - 0537
Song - 0538
The Waves' Legend of the Strand of Bala - 0538
Page - 0539
Page - 0540
Waiting - 0541
The Night - 0542
Page - 0543
Harmosan - 0544
Some Murmur - 0545
Page - 0546
An Island Fisherman - 0547
August Weather - 0548
De Profundis - 0549
Larks - 0550
Oh, Green and Fresh - 0550
Summer-Sweet - 0551
The Children of Lir - 0551
Page - 0552
Page - 0553
Love in Reality - 0554
Page - 0555
Mary of the Curls - 0556
St. Patrick's Day - 0557
Page - 0558
The First Cuckoo in Spring - 0559
Page - 0560
Brighidin Ban Mo Store - 0561
Have You Been at Carrick ? - 0562
Page - 0563
Mo Craoibhin Cno - 0564
Nelly Ban - 0565
Page - 0566
Ros Geal Dubh - 0567
Page - 0568
The Dawning of the Day - 0569
The Fair Hills of Eire Ogh - 0570
The Fairy Nurse - 0571
Page - 0572
Drimin Donn Dilis - 0573
Page - 0574
To My Promised Wife - 0575
Page - 0576
That - 0577
Think - 0577
Related Souls - 0578
Page - 0579
The Exodus - 0580
Page - 0581
Page - 0582
To Ireland - 0583
Page - 0584
Amor Intellectualis - 0585
Apologia - 0585
Page - 0586
Ave Imperatrix - 0587
Page - 0588
Page - 0589
Page - 0590
Helas - 0591
Her Voice - 0592
Page - 0593
A Farewell to America - 0594
My Life is Like the Summer Rose - 0595
Page - 0596
Disillusion - 0597
Page - 0598
The Munster War-Song - 0599
Page - 0600
The Rath of Mullaghmast - 0601
Page - 0602
Page - 0603
The Minstrel's Walk - 0604
Page - 0605
Page - 0606
Halloweve Complaint - 0607
Page - 0608
I Wish the Devil Was Dead - 0609
Page - 0610
The Bee and the Floweret - 0611
Page - 0612
Lines Written to Music - 0613
O Say Not that My Heart is Cold - 0614
The Burial of Sir John Moore - 0615
Page - 0616
A Lesson in Geography - 0617
Page - 0618
Page - 0619
En Attendant - 0620
"Perhaps " - 0621
Whisper - 0622
Page - 0623
A Dream of a Blessed Spirit - 0624
A Faery Song - 0625
Down by the Salley Gardens - 0625
Into the Twilight - 0626
The Host of the Air - 0627
The Hosting of the Sidhe - 0628
The Lake Isle of Innisfree - 0629
The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner - 0630
The Pity of Love - 0630
The Rose of the World - 0631
The Song of the Old Mother - 0631
The Two Trees - 0632
When You Are Old - 0633
Where My Books Go - 0633
Page - 0634
A Dream of Tir-nan-oge - 0635
Page - 0636
The Star of Knowledge - 0637
The Virgin Mother - 0638
INDEX OF TITLES - 0639
Page - 0640
Page - 0641
Page - 0642
Page - 0643
Page - 0644
Page - 0645
Page - 0646
Page - 0647
Page - 0648
Page - 0649
Page - 0650
Page - 0651
Page - 0652
Page - 0653
Page - 0654
Page - 0655
Index Of First Lines - 0657
Page - 0658
Page - 0659
Page - 0660
Page - 0661
Page - 0662
Page - 0663
Page - 0664
Page - 0665
Page - 0666
Page - 0667
Page - 0668
Page - 0669
Page - 0670
Page - 0671
Page - 0672
Page - 0673