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Come Back to Erin. A beautiful ballad, beautiful photos of a beautiful country - Ireland. A 19th Century composition composed by Charlotte Alington Pye Barnard and played by James Last and his Orchestra. …More
Come Back to Erin.

A beautiful ballad, beautiful photos of a beautiful country - Ireland. A 19th Century composition composed by Charlotte Alington Pye Barnard and played by James Last and his Orchestra.

Charlotte Alington Pye Barnard (1830-1869) was an English poet and composer of ballads and hymns, who often wrote under the pseudonym Claribel.

Charlotte Alington Pye was the daughter of Henry Alington Pye, a solicitor and Charlotte Yerburgh. She married Charles Barnard in 1854: though he was parson of St Olaves in Ruckland, they lived at The Firs in Westgate.

A prolific balladeer and hymn-writer, Barnard is probably best known for 'I Cannot Sing the Old Songs' and 'Come Back to Erin'.

Video by Alfred with the help of Choy Hong (Jasmine) Grech, Mosta, Malta.
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