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Killeter Fair
The song 'Killeter Fair' by Jimmy Quigley (as referenced in the Appletree Press title Hiring Fairs and Market Places, by May Blair.Once you have read the poem, you can return to the Irelandseye extract from 'Hiring Fairs and Market Places', which quotes this song:
KILLETER FAIR
Oh attention pay you country folk, and listen to me plaise,I’ll sing to you a verse or two to content you at me aise;
It’s all about a fair maid, her equal wasn’t there,
And the first time that I met the girl ’twas in Killeter Fair.
For her eyes they shine like diamonds and her cheeks are like the rose,
She is my first and only love no matter where she goes,
She stole my heart completely, boys, the truth I do declare,
And the first place that I met her it was in Killeter Fair.
I invited her into Edmund Hughes’s, all for to have a ‘trate’
We both went in together and sat down to have a sate;
She said that she’d have lemonade, I said I’d have a share,
For I never like to take strong drink when in Killeter Fair.
She invited me to see her home in Aghaloney Glen,
Where many a pleasant afternoon with her I since did spend;
Her father bid me welcome, and said he didn’t care
If I’d like to wed his daughter I met in Killeter Fair.
Och, now that we are married we are happy as you know,
We always feel right pleasant, let the weather freeze or snow.
She says, as she sits by the fire, and laughs right hearty there,
‘John, the first place that you met me, it was in Killeter Fair.’
Return to the County Tyrone extract from the Appletree Press title Hiring Fairs and Market Places, by May Blair.
