"Irish Emigrant Ballads and Songs"
Wright
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CHAPTER V - HAZARDS OF THE CROSSING

A NEW SONG ON THE MELANCHOLY LOSS OF THE EMIGRANT SHIP, ANGLO-SAXON . 283
"I call on every Irishman to listen to my song,"        
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Bodleian Library, Oxford
The same broadside is in the National Library of Ireland.

LINES, WRITTEN ON THE WRECK OF THE ANGLO-SAXON                                284
"Attention pay both young and old, I hope you'll lend an ear,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Bodleian Library, Oxford

BOLD MCCARTHY (THE CITY OF BALTIMORE)*                                                      285
"Come all you true-born Irishmen, a story I will tell,"

Source: Peacock, Songs of the Newfoundland Outports, vol. 3, 860-861.

BURNING OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP                                                        287
"Come all ye Irish people,"
Source: The Universal Irish Song Book, 298-299.

DREADFUL CATASTROPHE AT SEA, BURNING OF THE SHIP "AUSTRIA"                       288
"You feeling-hearted christians through this country,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin

CAPTAIN COLSTON                                                                        290
"You landsmen all, on you I call, you heroes stout and brave,"
Source: Broadside, John C. Bebbington, Manchester Located: British Museum

CAPTAIN THOMPSON*                                                                       292
"My mind being much inclined to cross the raging main,"
Source: Joyce, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs, 188-189.

THE DISTRESS OF THE AMERICAN, NEW YORK                                               293
"Come all ye rakish young men, that does intend to roam,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Cambridge University Library

DUBLIN BAY (ROY NEILL)                                                                       295
"They sailed away, in a gallant bark,"
Source: Broadside, Henry De Marsan, New York Located: Library Company of Philadelphia Widely printed.

THE EMIGRANTS                                                                        296
"To the New York Trainer I do belong,"
Source: Broadside, Birmingham, Dublin Located: Cambridge University Library
There are many copies of this song extant. Reference is usually to the "New York Trader."

THE GLASGOW*                                                                               297
"All you who love your native land and mean to emigrate,"
Source: Ranson, Songs . . . of the Wexford Coast, 110-111.
Another source attributes the words ("possibly") to John Williams of Cootehill.

LAMENTABLE LINES ON THE BURNING OF THE "COSPATRICK"                               299
"You feeling-hearted Christians wherever that you be,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: The Newberry Library

LAMENTABLE LINES ON THE DREADFUL SHIPWRECK IN AMERICA                        300
"Of a terrible shipwreck we are told, the Columbus was her name,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: National Library of Ireland

THE WRECK OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS                                                301
"Kind friends, if you will list a while, a sad tale I'll relate,"
Source: Broadside, Horace Partridge, Boston Located: Brown University (John Hay Library)

LAMENTABLE LINES WRITTEN ON THE TOTAL LOSS OF THE BARQUE EDMOND         302
"You landsmen all I pray attend and to me lend an ear,"
Source: Broadside, Nugent, Dublin Located: National Library of Ireland

A LAMENTATION OF THE LOSS OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP                                       304
"You inhabitants of Ireland I hope you will lend an ear,"
Source: Broadside, Haly, Cork Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin

A LAMENTATION ON THE LOSS OF THE ST. GEORGE                                        305
"Draw near each tender Christian, assist my feeble hand."
Source: Broadside, Haly, Cork Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin

LAMENT FOR THE LOSS OF THE SHIP UNION                                                306
"When I was young and in my prime,"
Source: Logan, A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs, 56-58.
As LOVELY ANN on a broadside by John Harkness, Preston (Cambridge University). A variant is at Yale.

THE LOSS OF THE ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP*                                               307
"You feeling hearted Christians of high and low degree,"
Source: Healy, Irish Ballads and Songs of the Sea, 82, 88-89.

THE LOSS OF THE BELFAST LARK                                                               308
"Come all you faithful christians I hope you'll draw near,"
Source: Chapbook: The Sporting Boys of Paddy's Land Together with the Loss of the Belfast Lark (and) Elizer and William, Walter Kelly, Waterford
Located:   Henry E. Huntington Library

THE LOSS OF THE CONVICT SHIP THAT SAILED FROM THE COVE OF CORK              309
"Come all you tender Christians that hear my tale of woe,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Cambridge University Library

THE LOSS OF THE 'EXMOUTH'                                                                310
"Come all you worthy people all round the shamrock shore,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin

THE LOSS OF THE JUPITER                                                                311
"You landsmen all pay attention, and listen to my theme,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin

THE LADY OF THE LAKE                                                                312
"One evening as I chanced to stray along the banks of the Clide,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Royal Irish Academy

THE LOSS OF THE LADY OF THE LAKE                                                314
"You inhabitants of Ireland, attend to what I say,"
Source: Broadside, Haly, Cork Located: Cambridge University Library
A shorter, untitled version ("An Account of the Old Irish Street Ballads of Cork," .69) gives the month in stanza eight as March and the singer as John Birmingham.

LOSS OF THE POMONA, & 380 SOULS                                                       315, 316
"All you who live at home on land, come listen unto me,"
Source: Broadside, Haly, Cork Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin

THE POMONA*                                                                                317
"As I roved out one morning just at the early dawn,"
Source: Healy, Irish Ballads and Songs of the Sea, 52, 54-55.

THE LOSS OF THE ROB ROY                                                                318
"Draw near you gallant seamen, bold and you land men also,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Cambridge University Library

THE LOSS OF THE SHIP JANE MARIA                                                       319
"Come all you gallant seamen bold, that ploughs the raging main,"
Source:   Broadside, no imprint Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin

LOSS OF THE SHIP NEWRY                                                                320
"Give ear you tender hearted until that I relate"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located:   Royal Irish Academy

A NEW IRISH SONG                                                                        322
"Let every jovial Irish soul desirous of promotion,"
Source: Broadside, Nathaniel Coverly, Jr., Boston (ca. 1800) Located: American Antiquarian Society

THE SHIP ELIZA                                                                        324
"Come all you young men that live in Ireland," Source:   Broadside, no imprint Located: National Library of Ireland

A SORROWFUL LAMENTATION ON THE LATE SHIPWRECKS                                325
"You landsmen all on you I call, and gallant seamen too," Source: Broadside, Haly, Cork Located: Library of Congress. See the North Star song.

A SORROWFUL LAMENTATION ON THE LOSS OF THE "ANNIE JANE"                       326
"You husbands, wives, and children, that lives in Erin's shore,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin

SORROWFUL LAMENTATION ON THE LOSS OF THE NORTH STAR                       327
"You landsmen all, on you I call, and gallant seamen too,"
Source: Broadside, Nugent, Dublin Located: National Library of Ireland
The last verse is missing in a broadside (no imprint) held by the Cambridge Uni¬versity Library. Ranson (Songs . . . of the Wexford Coast) notes that Tom Murray, formerly of Ballynadrisogue, Blackwater, sings the song to the tune of "The Vivandeer."

THE SORROWFUL LAMENTATION FOR THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL SHIP HIGHBERNIA        328
"Good people all I pray attend and listen unto me,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint but quite possibly P. Brereton, Dublin Located: Cambridge University Library

THE WRECK OF THE REBECCA*                                                        329
1"When first I thought on Americay,"
Source: Sam Henry Collection Located: Central Library, Belfast