"My Love Nell" also know as the Star of the County
Downing and Canticle of the Turning was 19th century
song claimed by various people. One version (published
by John Church Company) is identified as "an Ulster
Ballad" by Charlotte Milligan Fox (1860-1916) ("sung by
David Bispham)", while another was credited to
("written and sung") William Carleton, for the
blackface minstrel stage. The latter is apparently
meant to be sung by white performers in blackface, in a
caricature of an Irish immigrant...(+)
"My Love Nell" also know as the Star of the County
Downing and Canticle of the Turning was 19th century
song claimed by various people. One version (published
by John Church Company) is identified as "an Ulster
Ballad" by Charlotte Milligan Fox (1860-1916) ("sung by
David Bispham)", while another was credited to
("written and sung") William Carleton, for the
blackface minstrel stage. The latter is apparently
meant to be sung by white performers in blackface, in a
caricature of an Irish immigrant song and was
advertised as a "serio-menti-sental" comic song. It
begins:
PARTITION