As I roved out one evening, down by a riverside

The narrator meets a young woman by the riverside one night. Her father wanted to shoot her lover, a poor fisherman called O'Reilly. Her mother sent O'Reilly a thousand pounds in gold so he could buysome land in America. Having done so, O'Reilly returns to fetch his lover, but they are both drowned as their ship gets wrecked. They are found together; in the girl's hand is a note warning women not to allow their lovers to sail to America.Mercer, 172; Laws M8