From the Quayle Bridge House Papers.

Document No. 162.

Mylecharaine

A Newly-discovered Version of the Popular Ballad.

The Quayle Bridge House Papers have given us many sidelights on Manx history not hitherto known. Here is a variant of the old ballad of Mylecharaine.

1

IN the turf bogs of Jirby from hist'ry we learn
so lonely you left me alone
there liv^d an old ancient Call^d Mollycarane
and so lonley you left me alone

2

one night a Kind neighbour did visit his cot,
So lonley you left me alone
And for to discourse with old Molly were bent
And so lonley you left me alone

3

Oh Mollycarane where got you your wife
So lonley you left me alone
I got her in Jirby and maried, for life
And so lonley you left me alone

4

O Mollycarane where got you your store
So lonley you left me alone
'twas found in the turf bogs as I walkëd o'er
And so lonley you left me alone

5

O Mollycharane where found you your stocks
So lonley you left me alone
'twas down in the turf bogs betwixt two old blocks
And so lonley you left me alone

6

it was two pair of Stockings and one pair of Shoes
So lonley you left me alone
for fourteen long years all Molly did use
And so lonley you left me alone

7

with a black and white sandal to markets would go
So lonley you left me alone
to Church on a Sunday to Service also
And so lonley you left me alone

8

his Daughters reprovd him they were so ashamed
So lonley you left me alone
he was such a Miser they did him much blame
And so lonley you left me alone

9

but Molly he answered his girls with a senile
So lonley you left me alone
for you I have savëd much gold by hard toil
And so lonley you left me alone

10

Old Molly was humble he never knew pride
So lonley you left me alone
he never wore top boots nor coaches to ride
And so lonley you left me alone

11

two thousand bright Guineas as history tells
So lonley you left me alone
three hundred the Boys and four hundred the girls
And so lonley you left me alone

12

but Molly has gone & hath left all his gains
So lonley you left me alone
he lies now in Jirby, his fame still remains
And so lonely you left me alone.