learn caiseadach ban x3 fair cassidy

Dicky Deegan plays 'An Caiseadach Bán' composed by Tomás Ó Casaide around 1773 about a man who leaves Holy orders for this illusive lady - only to be left bereft... The mountains referred to in the first line are most likely Croagh Patrick in Co Mayo and Sliabh Bághna in Co Roscommon..... Here's part of the story....... "I wandered down from the top of the Reek, Down to you, over at Sliabh Bawn, In search of the girl who left my mind troubled, And who turned my heart as black as coal; My shoulders swelled up to my ears And I received a clear sharp warning from death; And there wasn't one who heard my story, Who didn't say that he'd pity the Caisideach Bán...... And O, pretty brown locks for whom I left holy orders.... There she goes past us, the beautiful white swan, And she as well adorned as any woman; There is neither hill nor rushy hollow No beautiful glen where my love is, That music is not played by day and by night, And may Christ have mercy on the Caisideach Bán. A false vision I saw last night And I was alone on a bed of down, The beautiful lady lay down alongside me. She was so pretty with the most beautiful eyes. She had a smooth chalk-white waist like flickering candles, And her hair flowed down so thickly to the grass. Her complexion was brighter than the mountain-side's snow; It was she who killed me and with me hundreds more.... As I turned around, quickly and swiftly To catch her tresses, who was so thin and so firm, All I found was the edge of the blanket And that has left me bereft, for life."