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Song for Nora

December 21, 2009
07:15 AM

Thanks to Jill (see comments on last post) my niece Nora can be presented with a more elegant eponymous song .
This song has an interesting little history of its own; Sean O Casey, looking for a suitable love song for his hero Jack Clitheroe to sing to his young wife Nora in The Plough and the Stars purloined the existing parlour song Maggie and just changed the name. ( He is, as a consequence credited most places with writing it)

Folksinger Johnny Mc Evoy had a hit with the Nora version in Ireland in the late sixties.

So. for Nora, celebratng that she is now a pharmacist (and one with a job) ;

Nora
Sean O’Casey

Oh the violets were scenting the woods, Nora
Displaying their charm to the bee
When I first said I loved only you, Nora
And you said you loved only me

The chestnut blooms gleamed through the glade, Nora
A robin sang loud from a tree
When I first said I loved only you, Nora
And you said you loved only me

The golden-robed daffodils shone, Nora
And danced in the breeze on the Lea
When I first said I loved only you, Nora
And you said you loved only me

The trees, birds and bees sang a song, Nora
Of happier transports to be
When I first said I loved only you, Nora
And you said you loved only me

Our dreams they have never come true, Nora
Our hopes they were never to be
Since I first said I loved only you, Nora
And you said you loved only me
Since I first said I loved only you, Nora
And you said you loved only me

Comments

  1. Nora

    on December 22, 2009

    Aw thanks Martin!

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