Lyr Req: Old Donegal? / Emigrant's Letter (French)

Subject: Lyr Req: Old Donegal
From:
Date: 26 Feb 04 - 06:08 PM

I am looking for thr Title and/or the lyrics to a song my mother used to sing.
It contained the words
Dear Danny I'm taking the pen in me hand
to tell you the ship's out of sight of the land
on a grand ocean lining I'm sailing in style
ah but I'm sailing away from the Emerald Isle
-- And a queer kind of hush seems to come over all
as the ship sees the last of Old Donegal
Oh it';s grand to be you who are taking your tay
where they're c utting the corn in Cushla today
RThan ks

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Donegal
From: Brakn
Date: 26 Feb 04 - 07:02 PM

It's a Percy French song called "The Emigrant's Letter".

See here!