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Annie Glover

come all you young Irish lads, lassies as well
I’ll spin you a yarn that one day you’ll tell
don’t make it a whisper make sure that you yell 
the ballad of poor Annie Glover

now Annie was raised on her family’s farm
they worked on the land, they did no one harm
like many a girl, fell for a man’s charm
his wife she became Annie Glover

a daughter she bore him then sadly he died
now young mother Annie had nothing beside
for a husband and father sweet Annie now cried
the heartbroken poor Annie Glover

as darkness descended for reasons unknown
the roundhead came into dear Annie’s home
and shipped her and daughter across briny foam
she never knew why Annie Glover

then both made to work, John Goodwin their lord
no wages were given except food and board
the Irish were free so they all could afford 
the likes of sweet old Annie Glover

but all Goodwin’s daughters fell sick at one time
The doctors were helpless to make them feel fine
'It’s witch craft' they said, ‘a hex is the crime’
and blamed it on old Annie Glover

now Annie praised Jesus in her mother tongue
and also in Latin to her faith she clung
but she couldn’t in English and so she was hung
As a witch she died poor Annie Glover


Maria Forde vocals
Sammy Horner 12 string guitar, bass, mandolin, dulcimer guitar, bodhran
Kylie Horner whistles, accordion

[Annie Glover was sent to the USA to work as an indentured servant. After her master’s children became sick, she was accused of witchcraft. She would have been pardoned if she could have said the Lord’s Prayer in English. Annie, a devout Catholic, could recite the prayer but only in Irish and Latin. She was the last woman to be hung in the Salem witch trials.]

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from Far Away Places., released April 2, 2021

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