Historic Sheet Music Collection
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_where-the-river-shannon-flows_bing-crosby-the-kings-men-victor-young-and-his-orche_gbia0011997b
https://archive.org/details/78_where-the-river-shannon-flows_harry-macdonough-russell_gbia0006144b
https://archive.org/details/78_where-the-river-shannon-flows_harry-macdonough-russell_gbia0017650b
https://archive.org/details/78_where-the-river-shannon-flows_henry-burr-jas-i-russell_gbia0017077b
https://archive.org/details/78_where-the-river-shannon-flows_john-congdon-russell_gbia0013681a
https://archive.org/details/78_where-the-river-shannon-flows_john-congdon-with-male-trio-russell_gbia0003172a
https://archive.org/details/78_where-the-river-shannon-flows_john-mccormack-russell_gbia0016129a
https://archive.org/details/78_where-the-river-shannon-flows_mckee-trio-james-i-russell_gbia0033953b
https://archive.org/details/78_where-the-river-shannon-flows_mcmichens-melody-men-riley-puckett_gbia0014976a
Publication Date
1906
Lyrics
VERSE 1
There’s a pretty spot in Ireland
I always claim for my land.
Where the fairies and the blarney
Will never never die.
It’s the land of the shillalah,
My heart goes back there daily
To the girl I left behind me
When we kissed and said goodbye.
CHORUS
Where dear old Shannon’s flowing,
Where the threeleaved Shamrock’s grows,
Where my heart is I am going,
To my little Irish rose.
And the moment that I meet her
With a hug and kiss I’ll greet her,
For there’s not a colleen sweeter,
Where the River Shannon flows.
VERSE 2
Sure no letter I’ll be mailing
For soon will I be sailing,
And I’ll bless the ship that takes me
To my dear old Erin’s shore.
There I’ll settle down forever
I’ll leave the old sod never,
And I’ll whisper to my sweetheart, “Come and take my name As thore.”
CHORUS
Recommended Citation
Russell, James I., "Where the River Shannon Flows" (1906). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1730.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1730
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Words and Music by James I. Russell
Sung by John Russell of the Famous Russell Brothers
Photograph: Famous Russell Brothers and Matt J. Keefe
Illustrator: Edgar Keller
M. Witmark & Sons, New York, Chicago, London, San Francisco
Josef Weinberger, Liepzig and Vienna
Allan & Co. Melbourne, Australia
Canadian-American Music Co. Ltd. Toronto
Copyright MCMVI by M. Witmark & Sons. International Copyright Secured.
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