O'Donnell Abu!
[England? : s.n.,
ca. 1860?]
Dated from examination of text and style.
O'Donnell Abu - first line reads: Proudly the note of the trumpet is sounding.
Johnnie my man - first line reads: O, Johnnie my man, are you thinking no rising.
In two columns with an illustration above each.
Two ballads.
The tune for O'Donnell Abu was composed in the early part of the 19th century by Joseph Haliday, a man from Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary. He was bandmaster of the Cavan militia. Michael McCann, a young Galway man, added words to the music. The composition first appeared  in 'The Nation' of January, 1843 and was then called 'The Clan Connell War Song'.
Ballads, English
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