Looking for a ~1986 or earlier song called “Colleen”
I’m trying to identify a song from a mix tape my girlfriend made me in the mid-to-late 1980s. The song is titled “Colleen” and was by a male singer-songwriter on what appears to have been a small independent label.
According to the album’s liner notes, the artist wrote the song for his sister Janet after she broke up with a woman named Colleen.
The lyrics I remember include:
Colleen, you’ll never find a girl like her,
As sweet as the May trees that bloom in spring,
You’ll never find anyone else like Colleen.
These particular lines were borrowed/incorporated from a 1904 Irish song (possibly “Colleen: An Irish Love Song” by Blanke/Dustin, originally published 1903). So the artist was weaving an older Irish song into his own original composition.
Any help identifying the artist or album would be hugely appreciated!