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Thread #67359 Message #1124736
Posted By: GUEST,owencorcoran@shaw.ca
26-Feb-04 - 06:08 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Old Donegal? / Emigrant's Letter (French)
Subject: Lyr Req: Old Donegal
I am looking for thr Title and/or the lyrics to a song my mother used to sing. It contained the words Dear Danny I'm taking the pen in me hand to tell you the ship's out of sight of the land on a grand ocean lining I'm sailing in style ah but I'm sailing away from the Emerald Isle -- And a queer kind of hush seems to come over all as the ship sees the last of Old Donegal Oh it';s grand to be you who are taking your tay where they're c utting the corn in Cushla today RThan ks