Show The Story of oliii Adair A paper on Songs and SongWriters Song-Writers was read betore the Long Island Historial Society in Brooklyn last night by Chief Justice Charles P Daly He said that none of thereat the-reat composers of music Handel excepted had been a great songwriter song-writer and Handel said he would rather be the author of the sweet Irish melody of Eileen Aroon now known as Robin Adair than all the other songs in the world I The speaker told a story of the origin of Robin Adair A young Irish physician of the name or Robin Adair walking to London stopped at an inns where there was a countess whose leg had been broken by the overturning of a stage coach His proffered services ser-vices were accepted and he performed per-formed his work so skllfully that she insisted he should not leave her Ultimately she took him to London introduced him to the best social so-cial circles He became enamored of an earls daughter and taught her to sing Eileen Aroon Afterwards he was parted from her by a cruel fate She connected his name with I the song using it for the refrain I and at length the song as thus changed was picked up and carried by a celebrated tenor upon the English stage where it met with the same instantaneous success as did Home Sweet Home Justice Daly said that the song of Auld Land Syne had its origin in a Catholic vesper hymn that Yankee Doodle was originally a sword danceand that John Anderson Ander-son My Jo John and Cruiskeen Lawn were the same tune written in a little different time This tune was that of an older song than either which ran There was a little lit-tle man Who loved a little maid and before that in the time of Queen Elizabeth it was a dance IV r Sun |