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OH! DID YOU NOT HEAR OF KATE KEAENEY ?
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1. oh! I can tell How fa - tal the spell That lurks in the eye of Kate Kear - ney.
2. who dares in - hale Her sigh's spic - y gale, Must die by the breath of Kate Kear - ney.
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(1764-1826) : it is printed ■with the iiir in Crosby's IrisJi. Musical Repository, 1808, and in many subsequent song-books. John Murphy
names it ''Kate Martin" in his Irish Airs, 1809. Lady Morgan's song was seized upon"by the ballad-mongers of Dublin and
Limerick at an early date, and issued in rough chap-book form.