Artist: A.L. Lloyd
Author: Carrie Grover
Label: BBC recording
Year: 1939

Carrie Grover, emigrated Irish from Maine, used mid-19th century lyrics found both in Limerick and in Donegal as Arthur McBride And The Sergeant. Bert Lloyd credits Tom Cook, the same singer from Walberswick, Suffolk he credits for Reynardine (see there). Arthur McBride is the story of a soldier press-ganged for the Irish Regiment. So its roots go probably deeper: being sent to France echoes the Treaty of Limerick (1691). All ends well for Arthur since the recruiters fail. In his bestseller Star Of The Sea, writer Joseph O'Connor (Sinéad's brother) credits main character Pius Mulvey as the author of this ballad.