Annotation:Lover's Curse (The)
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LOVER'S CURSE, THE. AKA and see "Banks of Dunmore (The)]]." Irish, Air (3/4 time). D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. The song is from an old ballad collected in County Donegal and adapted by Herbert Hughes.
This one and that one will court him,
But if e'er he gets any but me;
Both daily and hourly I'll curse them,
That stole lovely Jamie from me.
Far in the land of the stranger,
Six hundred miles o'er the sea;
To fight in the lowlands of Holland,
They stole lovely Jamie from me.
Paddy Tunney recorded a ballad called "The Banks of Dunmore" which uses the same melody with the addition of a second part. Tunney's song is also from County Donegal and tells of the love of a wealthy young Protestant Ulsterman for a poor Irish Catholic girl.
