Irish immigrant songs/letters from home

Subject: RE: Irish immegrant songs/letters from home
From: PoppaGator
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 06:15 PM

I don't often have the answer to one of these questions, but I knew this answer as soon as I read the "subject" or title of the thread earlier this morning.

When I clicked in , though, I was two or three minutes too late -- so, as far as I'm concerned, Curmudgeon was plenty quick enough at 11 minutes.

Subject: RE: Irish immegrant songs/letters from home
From: gnu
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 06:03 PM

Eleven minutes !!?? C'mon people.... pick up the pace, eh ?

Subject: RE: Irish immegrant songs/letters from home
From: curmudgeon
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 11:09 AM

In the DT here. -- Tom

Subject: Irish immigrant songs/letters from home
From: GUEST,Geoff
Date: 27 Dec 04 - 10:58 AM

OK, I don't have much to go on, here. A number of years ago I heard a song, probably on the "Thistle and Shamrock", that was taken from a bundle of letters to an immigrant from his/her home in Ireland. My memeory is that each verse ended with some variant of "When are you comming home?"

It's not much, but can anyone help me?

Geoff,

In the Great North Wet