Ach. This month we're celebrating Saint Patrick's Day on more than just the 17th. Every day I'll tell you about a great Irish tune for celebrating. Todays is "The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe." While looking up this tune, I did notice some limeys that tried to claim the tune was from England. Well, one quick listen and I'm sure you'll see this is clearly an Irish tune.

So settle in with your Guinness or your Killian's, and sing along with me, will you?

Come all ye lads and lassies and listen to me a while,
And IÂ’ll sing for you a verse or two will cause you all to smile;
ItÂ’s all about a young man, and IÂ’m going to tell you now,
How he lately came a-courting of the Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe.

Said he, “My pretty fair maid, will you come along with me,
WeÂ’ll both go off together, and married we will be;
WeÂ’ll join our hands in wedlock bands, IÂ’m speaking to you now,
And I’ll do my best endeavour for the Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe.”

This fair and fickle young thing, she knew not what to say,
Her eyes did shine like silver bright and merrily did play;
She said, “Young man, your love subdue, for I am not ready now,
And IÂ’ll spend another season at the foot of the Sweet Brown Knowe.

Said he, “My pretty fair maid, how can you say so,
Look down in yonder valley where my crops do gently grow,
Look down in yonder valley where my horses and my plough
Are at their daily labour for the Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe.”

“If they’re at their daily labour, kind sir, it’s not for me,
For I’ve heard of your behaviour, I have, indeed,” she said;
“There is an Inn where you call in, I have heard the people say,
Where you rap and call and pay for all, and go home at the break of day.”

“If I rap and call and pay for all, the money is all my own,
And IÂ’ll never spend your fortune, for I hear you have got none.
You thought you had my poor heart broke in talking with me now,
But I’ll leave you where I found you, at the foot of the Sweet Brown Knowe.”

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