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The album title comes from the first line of this song, and it was learned from Rita Gallagher’s album Easter Snow. Lurgy Stream, Letterkenny (town), Kilmacrennan (village), Errigal (mountain), and Swilly (a lake and river) are all locations and geographical features in Donegal. You can hear a similar but slightly different and longer version by Charles McGonigle on the Irish Traditional Music Archive’s Inishowen Song Project website.

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When to this country I first came, my mind from love being free
‘Til the beauty of a female fair it so enticed me
Her cheeks were like the roses red and her breath it smelled perfumed
Her golden hair waved in the air, most comely to be seen.

It being a Monday evening, my love I chanced to meet
I took her in my arms and gave her kisses sweet
I asked her if she would marry me or single would remain
And if she’d cross over the seas with me and leave sweet Lurgy Stream.

If I would cross over the seas with you, I might be much to blame
If I’d cross over the seas with you, and leave sweet Lurgy Stream
Young men are false and general, perhaps you are the same
You might leave me there to rue the day I left sweet Lurgy Stream.

Oh, that the sun it may withdraw, no more to show us light
And that the moon it may refrain, no more to rule the night
That the twinkling stars they may fall down and never more be seen
The day or the hour that I’d prove false when far from Lurgy Stream.

Farewell to Letterkenny, it’s a place of sport and fame
Likewise to Kilmacrennan that stands near Lurgy Stream
Farewell awhile to sweet Errigal, likewise to Swilly shore
Where I spent many’s a happy day, will I ever see you more?

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from My Mind From Love Being Free, released May 1, 2015

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Lindsay Straw Boston, Massachusetts

Traditional folk singer, guitarist & bouzouki player.

"Hearken(s) back to more innocent times, of Greenwich Village and pure folk." - The Living Tradition

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