"Spanish Lady" is a traditional Irish folk song, also found in England.
The Bodleian Library has several broadsides of an English ballad with this name, one dating from the 17th century.
The Irish singer Christy Moore recalls[4] encountering the song in his youth and including it in his earliest repertoire.
It has been covered by many artists, including Frank Harte (who sang two Dublin versions as well as an English one), The Dubliners, Gaelic Storm, Celtic Woman, Celtic Thunder (Emmet Cahill), Orthodox Celts, The Saw Doctors and Ronnie Drew and Dustin the Turkey (whose version went No.
An a capella version was recorded by The Rising Pints (featuring Brian Cullen & Mark Renburke) on Another Round released in 1999.