Belfast Mountains
Three Quarter Time track 3
Lucy Broadwood had Belfast Mountains from Henry Burstow of Horsham in Sussex in 1893, and included it in her English Traditional Songs and Carols - where the third verse, not especially risqué to our ears, was marked “omit when singing”.
Broadwood's notes on the song say
The words follow very closely those on a ballad-sheet (circa 1800), printed by W. Shelmerdine, Manchester. Catnach also printed a version. There is a popular Irish superstition that Cave Hill near Belfast contains diamonds which shine sometimes at night, and this throws light upon similar allusions to diamonds, found so frequently in Irish broadsides of a particular type.