Snowy Breasted Pearl-Shannon Singers

[ti:Snowy Breasted Pearl] [ar:Shannon Singers] [al:The Songs Of John McCormack] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Snowy Breasted Pearl - Shannon Singers [00:09.85]There's a colleen fair as May [00:14.66]For a year and for a day [00:19.64]I have sought by every way [00:23.90]Her heart to gain [00:29.21]There's no art of tongue or eye [00:34.26]Fond youths with maidens try [00:39.20]But I've tried with ceaseless sigh [00:43.67]Yet tried in vain [00:49.21]If to France or far off Spain [00:54.23]She crossed the wat'ry main [00:59.12]To see her face again [01:02.70]The seas I'd brave [01:08.32]And if it's heaven's decree [01:13.47]That mine she'll never be [01:18.42]May the Son of Mary [01:21.11]Me in mercy save [01:47.56]Oh thou blooming milk-white dove [01:52.56]To whom I've given true love [01:57.55]Do not ever thus reprove my constancy; [02:07.05]There are maidens would be mine [02:12.13]With wealth in land or [02:15.31]Kine [02:17.12]If my heart would but incline [02:21.10]To turn from thee; [02:27.15]But a kiss with welcome bland [02:31.78]And a touch of thy fair [02:35.06]Hand [02:36.89]Are all that I demand [02:40.96]Would'st thou not spurn [02:46.16]For if not mine dear girl [02:51.20]Oh my snowy breasted pearl [02:56.32]May I never from the fair with life return [03:01.69]May I never from the fair with life return