Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms

The new lyrics were presented in an album of selected Irish melodies arranged by John Andrew Stevenson with “characteristic words” provided by Moore.

[2] The preface to their joint production quotes a letter that Moore wrote to Stevenson about the need for it to set the record straight on the Irish origin of many melodies that had come to be associated with "our English neighbours".

[3] William Grattan Flood provides details about a composed setting of "My Lodging is on the Cold Ground", published by Matthew Locke in 1665.

Flood cautions against confusing it with the traditional melody used by Moore, which he claims (without substantiation) had been known under various names to Irish harpers from about 1745.

It is not while beauty and youth are thine own, And thy cheeks unprofan'd by a tear, That the fervour and faith of a soul can be known, To which time will but make thee more dear!

"Endearing Young Charms" became a staple of Warner Bros. cartoons, appearing first in the 1944 Private Snafu short Booby Traps.

Arrangements of the tune "Lodging Is On the Cold Ground" can be found in Mauro Giuliani's Op 125 (6 Irish National Airs) no.

Louis Drouet's "Introduction and Variations on an English Theme for Flute and Harp" is based on the tune William Vincent Wallace composed a fantasy for piano on the melody.

Meredith Baxter performs a stanza of the song during a fundraiser for Steven's public television station and goes into labor as she sings the high F in the episode "Birth of a Keaton, Part 1" of Family Ties (1984).