THE ROSE OF TRALEE
(Charles Glover / Mordaunt Spencer)

Webster Booth

Also recorded by: The Bachelors; The Boys of the Isle; Robert Brooks;
Louis Browne; Brian Coll; Andy Cooney; Phil Coulter; Bing Crosby; 
Dennis Day; Morton Downey; Jerry Fielding; Andreus Forte; 
Foster & Allen; Melody Greenwood; Claire Hamilton; Houghton Weavers; 
Red Hurley; Irish Ceili Band; Joni James; Anthony Kearns; Tony Kenny;
Tom Kilpatrick; Gary Lakes; James Last; Josef Locke; Benjamin Luxon; 
Joe Lynch; John McNally; Leo McCaffrey; Jim McCann; John McCormack; 
John McDermott; Noel McLoughlin; Christy Moore; Patrick Mulligan;
Nightnoise; Dermot O'Brien; Cavan O'Connor; Daniel O'Donnell; 
Barry O'Dowd; Barney Shamrock; Frank Parker; Frank Patterson; 
Pokrovsky Ensemble; Jorge Rico; The Royal Festival Pops Orch.;
The Shamrock Singers; Sailpin; Stars at Studio 99; 
Vienna Ballroom Orch.; Roger Whittaker; Ben Wilmot; Pat Woods.


The pale moon was rising above the green mountain,
The sun was declining beneath the blue sea,
When I strayed with my love to the pure crystal fountain,
That stands in the beautiful vale of Tralee.

She was lovely and fair, as the rose of the summer,
Yet t'was not her beauty alone that won me.
Oh no, t'was the truth in her eyes ever dawning,
That made me love Mary, the Rose of Tralee!
The cool shades of evening their mantle were spreading,
And Mary, all smiling, was listening to me,
The moon through the valley her pale rays was shedding,
When I won the heart of the Rose of Tralee.
Chorus:
Though lovely and fair, as the rose of the summer,
Yet t'was not her beauty alone that won me.
Oh no, t'was the truth in her eyes ever dawning,
That made me love Mary, the Rose of Tralee!


(Contributed/Transcribed by Bill Huntley - December 2005)