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Thread #13054   Message #1231661
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
22-Jul-04 - 04:41 PM
Thread Name: Discussion: Lament of the Irish Emigrant
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lament of the Irish Emigrant
The broadside linked by Masato lacks the last (eighth) verse of Lady Dufferin's original. As noted previously in one thread, the lyrics of this popular poem also were printed on a broadside by Andrews, New York. In addition to the posting by Alice in 1997 (linked above by me), the poem is in The Oxford Book of English Verse (at Bartleby.com): Lament Irish Immigrant
I think George Seto posted the Bartleby link previously, but Mudcat is limping today.

The song is also in "Songs of the Newfoundland Outports," vol. 2, pp. 462-463, with two sets of music, one by James and Lucy Heany and the second by Nicolas Keough.
Title given is "I'm Sitting on the Stile, Mary." A note states that the Heanys learned it from "The Family Herald," a discontinued Canadian weekly. How these relate to musical settings by Barker, Dempster, and the Rankins, I do not know.