"Believe Me, If All These Endearing Young Charms ..."

This is from a cassette released by Nonesuch records in 1984.

It's a great "Irish" performance of some great "aulde Irische" music.  Just before 1810, Irish poet, entertainer, singer, and songwriter Thomas Moore collected for publication a great mound of Irish songs on love, drinking, and war -- the great subjects of Irish culture,  at least in the popular opinion.

His collections are generally known as "Moore's Irish Melodies."  This album is a selection.  Here's a list page of all of them, with lyrics.

I love these performances.  The singing is by turns lilting and bellowing.  The only instrumental accompaniment is a piano that is tuned, but sounds very old and frayed.  These are the songs:

01 - The Minstrel Boy

02 - Silent, O Moyle, Be the Roar of Thy Waters

03 - When in Death I Shall Calm  Recline

04 - Here We Dwell

05 - Lesbia Hath a Beaming Eye

06 - The Dirge / How Oft Has the Banshee Cried

07 - While Gazing on the Moon’s Light

08 - What the Bee Is to the Flow’ret

09 - Believe Me, If All These Endearing Young Charms

10 - The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls

11 - How Dear to Me the Hour When Daylight Dies

12 - Oh! Doubt Me Not

13 - At the Mid-Hour of the Night

14 - It Is Not the Tear at This Moment Shed

15 - Fill the Bumper Fair

16 - Planxty Johnstone / Captain Magan

17 - My Gentle Harp

18 - ’Tis the Last Rose of Summer

 Don't be afraid to let your emotions show, just so they are true ... affection, compassion, loyalty, devotion.  Do you show them with your friends and family?  I hope so!

Listen for yourself.