If you want to see a very old Irish-American song look at "Old Granny Wales" (Granuaile/Grace O'Malley) on my website in the Scarce songs 1 file. The copy there now (replacing a later copy from the Steven-Douglas MS in 'the Pioneer Songster) is by courtesy of Margaret MacArthur, who didn't know the tune, but now has it. The ballad ends with the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. The oldest printed copy of the tune "Granuaile" is also there as an ABC, and tomorrow I'll add an older MS copy of the tune. [See the Irish tunes index on my website for other copies of the tune, G dorian until 1842].