MUIRSHEEN DURKIN (ballad history)

[@billyo54]

I remember listening to a song called 'Molly Durkin' on one of my grandmother's 78s. It was sung by a woman (maybe Delia Murphy), which seemed much earlier than Johnny McEvoys recording.

[@loughourna]

"When I landed in Amerikay, I met a man named Burke He told me if I'd stay awhile, He surely find me work But work he didn't find me, so there's nothing here to bind me I'm off to San Francisco in Californiay" Irish Rovers 1960s version. "Muirsheen" was also Americanized to "Mrs. Durkin"