Jerry, what's the source for your text?

The Digital Tradition lyrics are an exact transcription of the lyrics in the CD booklet from the 1994 Andy M. Stewart album, The Man In the Moon - except for one egregious error: in the third line of the song, the DT has "It bear's me far from Innisfail." I hate being pedantic about grammar, but it's in my nature as the son of an English teacher.
I'd like to propose the following corrected text for the DT, but I'm not completely sure the note I added at the bottom is completely justified. Can we document the attribution of the song to Daniel Buckley, and are we sure that the songwriter was the Titanic survivor and that he was also the last US soldier killed in WWI???
Any chance we could find a printed text of this song, as written by Buckley?
-Joe-

SWEET KING WILLIAMS TOWN
(Daniel Buckley)

My bonnie barque floats light and free
Across the surging foam
It bears me far from Innisfail
To seek a foreign home
A lonely exile traveller
'Neath misfortune's cruel frown
Away from home and the friends so dear
In sweet King Williams Town

While here upon the deck I stand
And watch the surging foam
Kind thoughts arise all in my mind
For friends I'll ne'er see more
For childhood days and all happy hours
As fast the tears roll down
For my old home and the friends so dear
In sweet King Williams Town

Shall I no more gaze on that shore
Or view those mountains high
Or gaze along Black Water's banks
Where I roamed as a boy
For to view the sun over Knockacummer*
Light up the heather brown
Before she flings
Her little farewell beams
Over sweet King Williams Town


I know not yet but I fondly hope
Where e'er my footsteps roam
For cherished greatly in my mind
Are thoughts of love and home
Though fair is the land where I stand
As night falls gently down
May God be with you Motherland
Farewell Kingwilliamstown


Source: CD booklet from the 1994 Andy M. Stewart album, The Man In the Moon. The final verse is from an unknown source, and is not in the Stewart recording.

*Knocknaboul??? - the CD booklet has Knockacummer, but it's hard to tell what Stewart actually sings. It sounds like "Knocknamour."

Stewart says he learned the song from the singing of Cara Dillon. Brewer's Dictionary of Irish Phrase and Fable attributes the song to Danny Buckley. Other sources report that Daniel Buckley was a Titanic survivor who was reportedly the last American soldier to die on the last day of World War I.
Kingwilliamstown in County Cork is now called Ballydesmond.

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