New Ross Town- Snap Cash (Tip) c.1944 M. Delaney
[From the recording From Puck to Appleby: Songs and stories from Jim Carroll's and Pat Mackenzie's recordings of Irish Travellers in England. Mary Delaney who learned it in the 1940s from County Tipperary traveller, ‘Snap’ Cash.
Cash's version obviously is not related to either of the popular "As I Roved Out" versions but is from the tradition of the first revision, Maid and Soldier.
R. Matteson 2018]
New Ross Town- from Irish traveller Mary Delaney, learned about 1944 from Sanp Cash of Tipperary.
For, as I went out on a moonlight night
As the moon shined bright and clearly,
When a New Ross girl I chanced to meet,
She looks at me surprising;
We had a roo ry rah, fol the diddle ah,
Roo ry, roo ry, roo ry rah.
"Oh, will I go, my dear," he says,
"Or will I go my honey?"
Nice and gay she answered me,
"Go down and ask me mammy."
We’ll have roo ry rah, fol the diddle ah,
Roo ry rah she was a tome old hag.
Oh, I went down to her mammy’s house
When the moon shined bright and clearly,
She opened the door and let me in
And her mammy never heard us;
We had ...
"Oh, soldier dear, will you marry me
For now is your time or ever,
Oh, Holy God, will you marry me?
If you don’t and I’m ruined for ever;"
With my ...
"You are too young, my dear," he says,
"You are too young, my honey."
"For if you think I am too young,
Go down and ask me mammy;"
We’ll have ...
"How old are you, my dear," he says,
"How old are you, my honey?"
Nice and gay she answered me,
"Gone seventeen since Sunday."
With my ...
"Now I have a wife and a comely wife,
And a wife, I won’t forsake her,
There’s ne’er a town I would walk down
Where I’d get one if I take her."
With my roo ry rah, fol the diddle ah,
Roo ry rah you are a tome old hag.