I always thought When I first came to this land was pretty sad, actually. He wants so much and settles for so little - the land was sweet and good, but his wife was called Run for your life, his shack was called Break my back, his cow is No Milk Now... the son is My work's Done but I took that to mean he had a lazy son, a shrewish wife, lousy shelter and poor livestock - but he did what he could. Perseverence maybe, but happy? Not to me.

There is also something jolly by the Clancy Brothers, I think, about being Off to Philadelphia in the Morning (with me bundle on me shoulder, sure there's no one could be bolder, I'm leaving now the place where I was born in / I'm sure I'll take a notion for to cross the briny ocean and I'm off to Philadelphia in the morning. Jolly tune, can't recall all the words. I'll try to think of more.