Tim Mairtin Jack

#1 · December 5, 2003, 12:29 pm

Hello!
I've been trawling the Internet, trying to find the words to a ballad.
It's called "Tim Mairtin Jack" and starts off something like:

"I left Bangor Erris, still only a boy, with only one shirt on my back. I left family behind, but I didn't mind - I was with Tim Mairtin Jack.

Now Tim was the finest man ever I'd seen, tanned and with hair gleaming black - the mice they could nest, in the hair on his chest, without bothering Tim Mairtin Jack"

Does anyone out there know the rest or where I might find it, or who wrote/recorded it?

Any clues would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Padraic.