> _the_researcher@btopenworld.com_ (mailto:the_researcher@btopenworld.com) > writes: > > Would this be the same song > > One dark and stormy winters night > As the snow lay on the ground > A youthfull Irish soldier boy > To the mountains ,he was bound > > His mother stood beside him > Saying my son have no fear > And with trembling hands, around his waist > She tied his bandolier > Raymond > > > Yes, Raymond. That's the song. I e-mailed my friend and she told me she > had heard it from her father in growing up in the 1950s. So I must have > misheard at the concert. > > Thanks all. > > Nora Hopkins FitzGerald > Hopkins - Castlebar, Co. Mayo/New York City > Grant - Drumboniff, Co. Down/NYC > > > ==== IRISH-AMERICAN Mailing List ==== > > Well my friend if thats the song, it would be around longer than 50 years ago, the song had to do with the troubles, in Ireland probaly around the earlier 1900s, Raymond Thanks, Raymond. That makes sense but unfortunately the author is unknown. So we can't figure out when it was written. Nora