Connie Dover

Oh Brother Green, please come to me For I am shot and bleeding Dear brother, stay, and put me away And write my love a letter Tell her I know she's prayed for me And now her prayers are answered That I might be prepared to die If I should fall in battl...

Personent hodie Voces puerulae Laudates jucunde Qui nobis est natus Personent hodie Voces puerulae Laudates jucunde Qui nobis est natus Summo Deo datus Ideo, ideo, ideo gloria in excelsis Deo His the doom, ours the mirth When he came down to eart...

Fhir an bháta 'sna hóró éile Fhir an bháta 'sna hóró éile Fhir an bháta 'sna hóró éile Mo shoraid slán leat gach áit a dtéid thú Théid mé suas ar an chnoic is airde Feach an bhfeic mé fear an bháta, An tdig thú anoch nó an dtig thú amárach No muna dtig...

How can I live at the top of the mountain With no money in my pocket and no gold for to count it? But I would let the money go all for to please her fancy And I would marry no one but my bonnie blue-eyed lassie She's my bonnie blue-eyed lassie with an air...

Our lords are all a-hunting gone Over the hills and mountains fair And they have taken Hugh the Graeme For stealing of the bishop's mare And they have bound him hand and foot And led him up through Stirling town The lads and lasses met him there Cried...

In this fair land, I'll stay no more Here labor is in vain I'll seek the mountains far away And leave the fertile plain Where waves of grass in oceans roll Into infinity I stand ready on the shore To cross the inland sea I am going to the West You s...

Thíos ag cois na farraige bhí teach 'g mo mhuinntir féin Mo mhamaí 'gus mo dheadí 'gus mo chairde 'lig 'en tsaol Guigi ar bhúr bpaidrin 'ach oich' ag gabhĂĄil 'na leapa daoibh I ndúil go mbeinn sa bhaile 'gaibh in aimsir bhaint an fhéir A chailíní is a c...

Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds, I know you of old You have robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold Tis raining, 'tis hailing, 'tis a dark stormy night And my horses cannot travel for the moon gives no light My horses cannot travel for the moon gives...

Au borde d'une fontaine je me suis reposée Je me suis reposée au bord d'une fontaine Au bord d'une je me suis reposée Et l'eau était si claire que je me suis baignée Et l'eau était si clair que je me suis baignée Je me suis baignée et l'eau était si clai...

Long have we parted been, Laddie, my dearie, Now we have met again, Laddie, lie near me. Long have I sought thee, Thy face to cheer me, Dear has it cost me, Laddie, lie near me. Near me, near me Laddie, lie near me Now we have met again Laddie, li...

I may sit in my wee old house at the spinning wheel to toil so dreary I may think on a day that is gone, and sigh and sob till I grow weary I ne'er could brook, I ne'er could brook a for-eign king to own or flat-ter And I will sing a ranting song the day ou...

Neither wind nor bird That was my voice you heard Last night by the river In the wind that stirred the grass And whispered when you passed That was my voice you heard Neither wind nor bird That was my heart you heard Last night by the River Making th...

It was homeward bound one night on the deep Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep I dreamt a dream and I thought it true Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew As I was wandering on some foreign shore I heard a lady and she did deplore She wept aloud a...

One morning as I went a-fowling Bright Phoebus adorning the plain It was down by the shores of Lough Erne I met with a beautiful dame Her voice was so sweet and so pleasing These beautiful notes she did sing The innocent fowl of the forest Their loving...

When Mally Leigh came down the street, a wind blew mightily And flew the hat and cloak and all from bonny Mally Leigh And down along the Canongate were lads of all degree Who sighed to see the comely shape of bonny Mally Leigh And we're all gone East and...

My dearest dear, the time is near when I and you must part And no one knows the inner grief of my poor aching heart And what I suffer for your sake, for the one I love so dear I wish that I could go with you or you could tarry here I wish my heart were ma...

Oh, who is that outside with anger in his voice Beating on my closed door? I am Eamann of the Hill, soaked through and wet From constant walking of mountains and glens. Oh, who is without, that in anger they should Keep beating my bolted door? I am Ned...

Jocky met with Jenny fair Between the dawning and the day But Jocky now is full of care Since Jenny stole his heart away Although she promised to be true She proven has, alack, unkind The which does make poor Jocky rue That e'er he loved a fickle mind...

Come all ye lads of high renown, let me tell of a fair young maiden As she arose one summer's morn, just to watch the soldiers parading They looked so bold and they marched so gay, their banners flying as the band did play It caused lovely Peggy to smile an...

Brother of disaster and sister of our fate Do you count the tragedies we see? And brother of confusion and sister of debate Do you remember the sister of Rosemary? The doodlebugs were flying and the blitz was at its height Rosemary lay sleeping with her...

Peaches in the summertime Apples in the fall If I can't have the one I love I won't have none at all Shady Grove, my little love Shady Grove, my darling Shady Grove, my little love I'm going back to Harlan Cheeks as red as the blooming rose Eyes of...

Oh, Shenandoah, I long to see you Way hey, you rolling river Oh, Shenandoah, I long to see you Away, I'm bound away across the wide Missouri. For seven years I courted Nancy No other girl would suit my fancy She would not have me for her lover But I n...

I would I were on yonder hill It's there I'd sit and cry my fill And every tear would turn a mill Is go dté tu, mo mhuirnín slán I'll sell my rock, I'll sell my reel I'll sell my only spinning wheel To buy my love a sword of steel Is go dté tu, mo mhui...

My heart is sore, I dare not tell, my heart is sore for Somebody I would walk a winter's night all for a sight of Somebody If Somebody were come again then one day he must cross the main And everyone will get his own and I will see my Somebody Ochon, for...

All on a Saturday, bright as a bell Early and just for the ride We took a trip cycling down to the sea You and your lady and I And oh, what a summer, and oh, what a sun Bright to the blue sky it clung One day at Whitsun, the sea and the shore The summer...

Have you heard tell of sweet Betsy from Pike She cross the wide prairie with her lover, Ike With two yoke of Oxen, a big yellow dog, A tall Shanghai rooster and one spotted hog One evening quite early they camped on the Platte 'Twas nearby the road on a...

Down Deeside rode Inverey a-whistlin' and playin' He alit at brave Brackley's gates ere it was dawn Cries Baron of Brackley it's are you within There are sharp swords at your gates would make your blood spin Up spoke the proud Baron from the castle wall...

Eyes like the morning star, cheeks like a rose Laura was a pretty girl, God Almighty knows Weep on you falling rain, wail, winds, wail All along, along, along the Colorado trail Stars fading up above, lark starts to sing Sky is rosy in the east, what wi...

A wealthy squire lived in this town He was a man of high renown He had a daughter of beauty bright And the name he called her was his heart's delight And many's the young man to court her came But none of them could her favor gain Till there came one of...

The Sailor Cut Down in His Prime As I walked out by St. James Hospital Cold was the morning and wet was the day Who should I spy but a handsome young sailor All wrapped up in flannel and colder than clay His poor old father and his dear old mother Oft...

The water is wide, I cannot cross o'er And neither have I wings to fly Give me a boat that will carry two, And both shall row, my love and I I leaned my back against an oak, Thinking it was a mighty tree, But first it bent, and then it broke Just as my...

When first I saw you, I saw beauty And I blinded my eyes, for fear that I should weep When first I heard you, I heard sweetness And I turned away, for fear of my weakness I blinded my eyes, my face I turned away I hardened my heart for fear of my ruin 

Ubi caritas et amor Deus ibi est Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor Exsultemus et in ipso jucundemur Et ex corde diligamus nos sincere Ubi caritas et amor Deus ibi est Simul ergo cum in unum congregamur Ne nos mente dividamur caveamus Cessent jurgia...

Oh I once was a cowboy and i used to run wild And I rodeoed and wrangled and rambled in style But I'm too old for horses, too old for the show And I'm too young for heaven now where shall I go? Where shall I go? Where shall I go? I am too young for heave...

The darkness now is lifting Dawn blushes in the sky It lays a spread of gold and red And breathes a lullaby To a thousand quiet creatures Of earth and sky and stream Who cannot know that paradise Will one day be a dream When the last wagon rolls along...

'Tis of a lady in the West She was clothed all in green She looked o'er her father's castle wall To see his ship sailing in Daughter, oh Daughter, said the King Why are you so pale and wan I fear you have some sore sickness Or else you have lain with a...

As I rode out last winter's night A drinkin' of sweet wine Conversin' with that pretty little girl That stole this heart of mine Who will shoe your pretty little foot Who will glove your hand Who will kiss your ruby red lips Who will be your man Who...

What wondrous love is this, oh my soul, oh my soul What wondrous love is this, oh my soul What wondrous love is this, that caused the Lord of Bliss To send such perfect peace to my soul, to my soul To send such perfect peace to my soul Ye winged angels f...