Girls Spinning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD ABCD ABCD EFFDD GHHII JJDD KKJJABCDBCD ABCD ABCD LDLJL CDCD MNJN OPNP ANND NND ANNDANND EDDQD RJRJ STNT DUDU NVWV NFXF ANND| FIRST GIRL | A |
| MALLO lero iss im bo nero | B |
| Go where they're threshing and find me my lover | C |
| Mallo lero iss im bo bairn | D |
| - | |
| SECOND GIRL | A |
| Mallo lero iss im bo nero | B |
| Who shall I bring you Rody the Rover | C |
| Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
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| FIRST GIRL | A |
| Mallo lero iss im bo nero | B |
| Listen and hear what he's singing over | C |
| Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
| - | |
| A man's voice sings | E |
| I went out m the evening my sweetheart for to find | F |
| I stood by her cottage window as well I do mind | F |
| I stood by her cottage window and I thought I would get in | D |
| But instead of pleasures for me my sorrows did begin | D |
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| Fine colour had my darling though it wasn't me was | G |
| there | H |
| I did not sit beside her but inside there was a pair | H |
| I stood outside the window like a poor neglected soul | I |
| And I waited till my own name was brought across the coal | I |
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| Here's a health unto the blackbird that sings upon the tree | J |
| And here's to the willy wagtail that goes the road with me | J |
| Here's a health unto my darling and to them she makes her own | D |
| She's deserving of good company for me I go my lone | D |
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| My love she is courteous and handsome and tall | K |
| For wit and for behaviour she's foremost of them all | K |
| She says she is in no way bound that with me she'll go free | J |
| But my love has too many lovers to have any love for me | J |
| FIRST GIRL | A |
| Mallo lero iss im bo nero | B |
| Who weds him might cry with the wandering plover | C |
| Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
| Mallo lero iss im bo nero | B |
| Where they're breaking the horses go find me my lover | C |
| Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
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| SECOND GIRL | A |
| Mallo lero iss im bo nero | B |
| Him with the strong hand I will bring from the clover | C |
| Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
| - | |
| FIRST GIRL | A |
| Mallo lero iss im bo nero | B |
| I wait till I hear what he's singing over | C |
| Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
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| Another man s voice | L |
| Are they not the good men of Eirinn | D |
| Who give not their thought nor their voice | L |
| To fortune but take without dowry | J |
| The maids of their choice | L |
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| For the trout has sport in the river | C |
| Whether prices be up or low down | D |
| And the salmon he slips through the water | C |
| Not heeding the town | D |
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| Then if she the love of my bosom | M |
| Did laugh as she stood by my door | N |
| O Fd rise then and draw her in to me | J |
| With kisses go leor | N |
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| It's not likely the wind in the tree tops | O |
| Would trouble our love nor our rest | P |
| Not the hurrying footsteps would draw her | N |
| My love from my breast | P |
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| FIRST GIRL | A |
| Mallo lero iss im bo nero | N |
| He sings to the girsha in the hazel wood cover | N |
| Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
| - | |
| Mallo lero iss im bo nero | N |
| Go where they're shearing and find me my lover | N |
| Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
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| SECOND GIRL | A |
| Mallo lero iss im bo nero | N |
| The newly come youth is looking straight over | N |
| Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
| FIRST GIRL | A |
| Mallo lero iss im bo nero | N |
| If you mind what he sings you'll have silver trover | N |
| Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
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| A young man's voice sings | E |
| Once I went over the ocean | D |
| On a ship that was bound for proud Spain | D |
| Some people were singing and dancing | Q |
| But I had a heart full of pain | D |
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| I'll put now a sail on the lake | R |
| That's between my treasure and me | J |
| And I'll sail over the lake | R |
| Till I come to the Joyce country | J |
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| She'll hear my boat on the shingles | S |
| And she'll hear my step on the land | T |
| And the corncrake deep in the meadow | N |
| Will tell her that I'm at hand | T |
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| The summer comes to Glen Nefin | D |
| With heavy dew on the leas | U |
| With the gathering of wild honey | D |
| To the tops of all the trees | U |
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| In honey and dew the summer | N |
| Upon the ground is shed | V |
| And the cuckoo cries until dark | W |
| Where my storeen has her bed | V |
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| And if O'Hanlon's daughter | N |
| Will give me a welcome kind | F |
| O never will my sail be turned | X |
| To a harsh and a heavy wind | F |
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| FIRST GIRL | A |
| Mallo lero iss im bo nero | N |
| Welcome I'll give him over and over | N |
| Mallo lero iss im bo baun | D |
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