She was lovely and fair as the rose of the summer, Yet 'twas not her beauty alone that won me Oh no, 'twas the truth in her eyes ever dawning, That made me love Mary, the Rose of Tralee.
Lyrics 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. This poem was adapted into a poem called The Rose of Tralee with the air being re-set by Charles William Glover from one of his previous ballads. His report concluded that a poem written by Tralee poet William Pembroke Mulchinock called Smile Mary My Darling was published and passed off by Edward Mordaunt Spencer in 1846 in his book of poetry The Heir of Abbotsville. Andrea Nini, a forensic linguist working on cases of disputed authorship.
In 2019 the Rose of Tralee International Festival, as part of their 60th Anniversary living history promotion, employed the services of Dr. The words of the song are credited to Edward Mordaunt Spencer and the music to Charles William Glover, but a story circulated in connection with the festival claims that the song was written by William Pembroke Mulchinock, out of love for Mary O'Connor, a poor maid in service to his family. The Rose of Tralee International Festival had been inspired by the ballad. "The Rose of Tralee" is a nineteenth-century Irish ballad about a woman called Mary, who because of her beauty was called The Rose of Tralee.
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