The County Mayo (Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer)

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• (Posted 2023-11-22)  CPDL #77546:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-22).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 558 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The County Mayo
Composer: Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer
Lyricist: Thomas Lavelle^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1912 Stainer & Bell
Description: from the Irish tune

Original text and translations

English text

On the deck of Patrick Lynch’s boat I sat in woeful plight,
Through my sighing all the weary day, and weeping all the night,
Were it not that full of sorrow from my people forth I go,
By the blessed sun! ’tis royally I’d sing thy praise, Mayo!

When I dwelt at home in plenty, and my gold did much a-bound,
In the company of fair young maids the Spanish ale went round—
’Tis a bitter change from those gay days that now I’m forced to go,
And must leave my bones in Santa Cruz, far from my own Mayo.

’Tis my grief, that Patrick Loughlin is not Earl of Irrul still,
And that Brian Duff no longer rules as Lord upon the hill,
And that Colonel Hugh O’Grady should be lying dead and low,
And must leave my bones in foreign lands, far from my own Mayo.

Thomas Lavelle
transl. from Irish by George Fox (1809–1880)