Moorlough Shore


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  • Moorlough Shore is a traditional Irish love song that tells the story of a young man praising the bueauties of the countryside and the girl he is in love with. She refuses his advances because she already loves a sailor and will for him (her true love) for seven years. Frustrated, the boy leaves his childhood home and sails away, still praising the girl he loves that lives by the Moorlough shore.
     
  • Also known as: The Main of Mourne Shore, Moorlough Mary, Banks of the Moorlough Shore, An Traigh Múghdhorna, The Maids of the Mountain Shore, The Foggy Dew, Down by the Salley Gardens, Gort Na Saileán, and possibly a few others as well!
     
  • Sharon has mentioned that she and Jim used to perform this song in their duo before the Corrs started together. The song appears on the Corrs album of traditional songs Home.
     
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  • Moorlough Shore is a traditional Irish love song.
     


Lyrics:
Your hills and dales and flowery vales
That lie near the Moorlough Shore.
Your vines that blow by Borden's grove.
Will I ever see you more

Where the primrose glows
And the violet grows
Where the trout and salmon play.
With my line and hook delight I took
To spend my youthful days.
Last night I went to see my love,
And to hear what she might say.

To see if she'd take pity on me,
Lest I might go away.
She said, "I loved an Irish lad,
And he was my only joy,
And ever since I saw his face
I have loved that soldier boy."

Perhaps your soldier lad is lost
Sailing over the sea of Maine.
Or perhaps he's gone with some other one
You may never see him again.
Well if my Irish lad is lost,
He's the one I do adore,
And seven years I'll wait for him
By the banks of the Moorlough Shore.



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