Kitty Coleraine of Butterman's Lane

• "Kitty of Coleraine": an Irish folksong, believed to have been written as a poem by Edward Lysaght (1763-1810) It was published as a song in 1810. Its first verse goes:

As beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping,
With a pitcher of milk from the fair of Coleraine,
When she saw him she stumbled, the pitcher it tumbled,
And all the sweet buttermilk watered the plain.
Oh! What shall I do now, 'twas looking at you now,
Sure, sure, such a pitcher I'll ne'er meet again
'Twas the pride of my dairy, Oh, Barney McCleary,
You're sent as a plague on the girls of Coleraine.

• Lane: a river in New Hampshire, USA
• Butterman: butterrmilk
• Coleraine: a large town near the mouth of the River Bann in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland