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Arthur Lloyd's 'I Vowed That I Never Would Leave Her'

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Above - Arthur Lloyd's 'I Vowed That I Never Would Leave Her'

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A visitor to the site, Aida Yared, whose website www.JoyceImages.com features the work of James Joyce's 'Ulysses', has informed me that the book contains references to the Arthur Lloyd song 'I Vow'd That I Never Would Leave Her'

Aida writes: 'One of the characters, Corny Kelleher, is humming "tooraloom" whenever he appears in the book. In the chapter Circe we get a few lines from his song "I vowed that I never would leave her, She turned out a cruel deceiver. With my tooraloom tooraloom tooraloom tooraloom." The source of the song had thus far eluded Joyce scholars.' Aida Yared.

I can confirm that Arthur's song and the song in 'Ulysses' are one and the same, see Lyrics below, and I have since discovered that Arthur Lloyd's 'Not for Joe'and 'Three Acres and a Cow' are also mentioned by name in 'Ulysses. (M .L.)

Lyrics of 'I Vowed That I Never Would Leave Her'

Please look on this warrior bold,
Pray behold, I've been sold,
And I'm sure when my story is told
Badly treated I've been you will say
By a girl who was called Susan Jane,
Susan Jane was her name
But I hope I'll ne'er see her again.

chorus:

Tho' I vow'd that I never would leave her,
She turn'd out a cruel deceiver,
Tootle tum, tootle tum, Tootle tum, tootle tum,
Tootle tum, tootle tum tay.

Now I met this girl first in the Park,
In the Park, What a lark,
And I ventur'd to make a remark
That it was a very cold day.
She answer'd me, not at all bold,
That it was very cold,
Her name and address she then told
Tootle tum, tootle tum tay.

chorus.

Lyrics and Song Sheet Courtesy Peter Charlton