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The Enniskillen Dragoon

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A York pioneer looking back, 1834-1884 at youthful days, emigration and the drinking customs of fifty years ago also at the cranks met with in the Emerald Isle and Canada; with amusing incidents and anecdotes of the early settler in the latter place ... and a brief sketch of the York Pioneers'
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This song, though of Ulster origin, was a great favourite in Munster, where I learned it when very young: it was indeed sung all over Ireland. I published the words more than fifty years ago in a newspaper called
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Lough Erne, Enniskillen, Belleek, Ballyshannon, and Bundoran : with routes from Dublin to Enniskillen and Bundoran, by rail or by steamboat
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singing a similar version as a slow lament. A 1930 version adds a final verse in which Willy and Flora are married.
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Old Irish folk music and songs : a collection of 842 Irish airs and songs, hitherto unpublished
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in 1870 called it "an old song once, and to some extent still popular on the banks of the
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Sigerson's version adapts the chorus and replaces the verses entirely. In the 1960s,
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A collection of American songs and ballads, 205 in number. With a ms. index
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The following text appears in an 1840 collection of American broadsides:
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Joyce, Patrick Weston; Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1909).
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For when we ’re leaving Ireland they will all change their tune,
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Joyce's 1909 version is similar; Flora is specified to be from
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With their silver mounted pistols, she observed them full soon,
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E. M. Morphy remembered hearing the "familiar old ballad" in
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And they'll all welcome home the Enniskillen draggoon.
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Saying, the Lord may be with you, Enniskillen draggoon.
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Whose armour doth shine like the bright stars of night,
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Fare-you-well, Enniskillen, fare-you-well for a while,
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Saying, Willy, dearest Willy, you’ve listed full soon,
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And when the war is over we'll return in full bloom,
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Your parents they insulted me both morning and noon,
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She stood in her coach to see the draggoons parade.
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Index

The Enniskillen Dragoons
Inniskilling Dragoons
Roud
folk song
Inniskilling Dragoons
British Army
Enniskillen
County Fermanagh
Northern Ireland
march
Toronto
William Frederick Wakeman
Erne
Patrick Weston Joyce
The Tipperary Leader
Dr. [George] Sigerson
A. P. Graves
Tommy Makem
Peninsular War
Clancy Brothers
Monaghan town
Hugh Shields
Eddie Butcher
Magilligan
"Fare Thee Well" (song)


"The Inniskilling dragoon, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English"
"Roud Number 2185"
"The Landing in Toronto, Late York"

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