Dublin City- Mary Doran (Belfast) 1952 Kennedy
[From: Folksongs of Britain and Ireland. London, 1975, p. 731 (notes to No. 327, "The Oxford Girl".
Both the Irish collected versions have town of "Limsborough" or that approximation.
R. Matteson 2016]
Dublin City- sung by Mary Doran (tinker), Belfast. Recorded P. Kennedy & S. O'Boyle, 1952.
1. I'm belonging to Dublin city, boys,
And a city you all know well
My parents reared me tenderly
And they brought me up right well.
2. 'Twas near the town of Limsborough
Where they bound me up to a mill
It was there I beheld a comely girl
With a dark and a rolling eye.
3. 'Twas with his false and deluding tongue
He coaxed that fair maid out
And from out a ditch he pulled a stick
And he knocked that fair maid down.
4. He caught her by the yellow locks
And he drew her along the ground
Till he drew her to the Liffey side
Where her body could not be found.
5. Returning to his master's door
At the dead hour of the night
And he asking for a candle
To show himself some light
6. Went into bed and no more he says
No rest or peace could find
For the murder of that fair young maid
Lay heavy on his mind.