Lough Erne Shore
Source: Where The Linnets Sings (2026)
Location: Track 3
One morning as I went a’ fowling, bright Phoebus adorned the plain,
’Twas down by the shores of Lough Erne I met with this wonderful dame.
Her voice was so sweet and so pleasing, these beautiful notes she did sing.
The innocent fowl of the forest, their love onto her they did bring.
It being the first time I met her, my heart it did lep with surprise.
I thought that she could be no mortal, but an angel who fell from the skies.
Her hair it resembled gold tresses, her skin was as white as the snow,
And her cheeks were as red as the roses that bloom around Lough Erne Shore.
When I found that my love was eloping, these words unto her I did say:
‘O take me to your habitation, for Cupid has led me astray.’
‘Forever I’ll keep the commandments. They say that it is the best plan,
Fair maids who do yield to men’s pleasure, the Scripture does say they are wrong.’
‘O Mary don’t accuse me of weakness, for treachery I do disown.
I will make you a lady of honour, if with me this night you come home.
O had I the lamp of Great Aladdin, his rings and his genie, that’s more,
I would part with them all for to gain you and live upon Lough Erne Shore.’
The fame of this fair one’s notorious; her beauty descends from above,
All robed like a goddess in splendour and fanned by the fragrance of love.
I wish I were able to praise her. Her like I have not seen before.
So, Mary got married to Willie and they live upon Lough Erne Shore.