Familiar Songs - Their Authors & Histories

300 traditional songs, inc sheet music with full piano accompaniment & lyrics.

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With a blush and a smile, Kitty rose up, the while Her eye in the glass, as she bound her hair, glancing: Tis hard to refuse when a young lover sues, So she couldn't but choose to go off to the dancing. And now on the green the glad groups are seen, Each gay-hearted lad with the lass of his choosing; And Pat, without fail, leads out sweet Kitty Neil — Somehow, when he asked, she ne'er thought of refusing. Now, Felix Magee puts his pipes to his knee, And, with flourish so free, sets each couple in motion; With a cheer and a bound, the lads patter the ground — The maic's move around just like swans on the ocean.

Cheeks bright as the rose — feet light as the doe's — Now coyly retiring, now boldly advancing; Search the world all around, from the sky to the ground, No such sight can be found as an Irish lass dancing! Sweet Kate ! who could view your bright eyes of deep blue, Beaming humidly through their dark lashes so mildly, Your fair-turned arm, heaving breast, rounded form, Nor feel his heart warm, and his pulses throb wildly ? Poor Pat feels his heart, as he gazes, depart, Subdued by the smart of such painful yet sweet love; The sight leaves his eye, as he cries with a sigh, " Dance light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love."

FLY NOT YET. When Thomas Moore was in this country, a company assembled in a Philadelphia parlor to meet him, and when there was a suggestion of " departing-time," Moore said, that if the guests would stay he would write them a song and sing it on the spot. " Fly Not Yet" was the result, sung to an old melody called " Planxty Kelly."