"Misty Mourne Shore" is a traditional Irish love song.
The air is also known by various other titles and
lyrics, such as "The Maid of Mourne Shore", "Moorlough
Mary", "Banks of the Moorlough Shore", "An Traigh
Múghdhorna", "The Maids Of The Mountain Shore", "The
Foggy Dew", "Down by the Salley Gardens", "Gort Na
Saileán" and similar.
A young man praises the beauties of the countryside and
the girl he has fallen in love with. She refuses his
advances on the ground that she already love...(+)
"Misty Mourne Shore" is a traditional Irish love song.
The air is also known by various other titles and
lyrics, such as "The Maid of Mourne Shore", "Moorlough
Mary", "Banks of the Moorlough Shore", "An Traigh
Múghdhorna", "The Maids Of The Mountain Shore", "The
Foggy Dew", "Down by the Salley Gardens", "Gort Na
Saileán" and similar.
A young man praises the beauties of the countryside and
the girl he has fallen in love with. She refuses his
advances on the ground that she already loves a sailor.
She will wait for her true love for seven years. In
frustration the boy leaves his childhood home and sails
away, still praising the girl he loves that lives by
the Moorlough Shore. The song is set in Strabane, and
local names and places along the River Mourne are
mentioned.
The earliest version is a broadside in the Bodleian
Library, dated 1886. The song is discussed in the
"Journal of the Irish folk Song Society" in 1905 and
1911. In the 1940s Helen Hartness Flanders found a
version in Vermont.
Source: Wikipedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moorlough_Shore).
Although originally written for Traditional Irish
instruments, I created this Interpretation of "Mist On
The Mountain" for Flute, Oboe & Celtic or Concert
(Pedal) Harp.