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nickr90 Lyr Req: The Montague (and other shipwreck songs) (16) ADD: The Montague 14 Jul 04

This is from Songs of the Wexford Coast collected by Father Ranson and last published in the 1970s priced £ 1


THE 'MONTAGUE'

The Montague packet left Wexford at ten.
With a fine stock of cattle and a fine crew of men
Hee, Ho, Heave away, ho.

She sailed down the river so gay and so grand,
Till she came to the Dogger and stuck in the sand.
Hee Ho, Heave away, ho.

Bob Kirwan cried out, Oh, what's to be done!
I've lost my fine cow that I bought in Taghmon.
Hee Ho, Heave away, ho.

Jack Leary, six sheep and young Belton, a cow,
Nickie Byrne, a big goat, and Bob Brennan, a sow.
Hee Ho, Heave away, ho.

I got this song or shanty from Johnny Hoy, aged about eighty years, of High St., Wexford, when he was in the Co. Home in April, 1943. It is incomplete and one would like to have come across the rest of it. Bob Kirwan and Belton Haves were butchers in Wexford.

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