I Wish I was a Maid Again- Eugene McEldowney (Dub) 2004
[ITMA Reference Number: 1244-ITMA-MP3, recorded at Tom Maye's Pub in Dublin, 2004.
Listen: http://www.itma.ie/digitallibrary/sound/i_wish_i_was_a_maid_again_eugene_mceldowney
First stanza from "Constant Lady" broadside circa 1686.
R. Matteson 2017]
I Wish I was a Maid Again- sung by Eugene McEldowney recorded at Tom Maye's Pub in Dublin, June 16, 2004.
There is a blackbird in yonder tree
They say he's blind and he cannot see;
But never the girl so blind as me,
When first I fell in with that company.
He courted me when my waist was thin
He courted me and my love did wend,
But now that my apron string won't tie 'round
He passes our door and he won't come in.
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain
I wish I was a maid again,
But a maid again I never will be,
Til the apples grow on an ivy tree.
There is a blackbird in yonder tree
They say he's blind and he cannot see;
But never the girl so blind as me,
When first I fell in with that company.