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14 Oct 08 - 05:19 PM (#2465658) Subject: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arriving From: Rog Peek .....in New York. I know this isn't much to go on, but it's all I can remember. Rog |
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14 Oct 08 - 05:20 PM (#2465661) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arrivi From: alex s Is it "Ellis Island"? |
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14 Oct 08 - 05:29 PM (#2465667) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arriving From: Rog Peek I just looked at the lyrics to Ellis Island, It doesn't ring any bells, although I've a feeling Ellis island was mentioned in the song. |
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14 Oct 08 - 05:31 PM (#2465669) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arrivi From: alex s have a listen to: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JhMivXx0D8k (Ellis Island) |
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14 Oct 08 - 05:44 PM (#2465681) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arriving From: Rog Peek Yes alex s that's it, thank you. |
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14 Oct 08 - 05:47 PM (#2465684) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arrivi From: alex s Cheers, Rog - help me out with my CD query!! |
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14 Oct 08 - 06:07 PM (#2465701) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arriving From: Rog Peek I've been on the internet looking for author and lyrics. I've found three songs called Ellis Island, none of which is this one. Help! Rog |
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14 Oct 08 - 06:38 PM (#2465727) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arriving From: Rog Peek Ah! Found it, :- Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears by Brendan Graham. lyrics annie moore honoured Rog |
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14 Oct 08 - 06:42 PM (#2465731) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arriving From: Rog Peek I've just noticed that the story was printed just today, isn't that a strange coincidence. I had no idea when I posted the thread earlier this evening. Rog |
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15 Oct 08 - 08:48 AM (#2466199) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arriving From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle This one? She left the fair shores of her own native Ireland; She left them at noon on a sunshiney day. She bade fond farewell to her friends and relations, And she set sail for America so far far away. It is little she thought as she stepped on the liner That bore her away from the Foyle's sunny shore, It is little she thiought as she stepped on the liner That her own beloved Derry she'd never see more. She landed one morning in New York's big city Amidst all the hustle and bustle and care. And she gazed in surprise at the New York skyscrapers And she wished she was back home in her Derry so fair. For years then she worked in a big mill in Boston. The room it was dark and no sun did shine there. The roses soon left the fair cheeks of young Ethna And she pined like a caged bird for her Derry so fair. One night as she lay in her cold attic chamber She dreamed that her own darling true love was there; But it was the angel of Death that so slowly came nigh her And took away Ethna from this sad world of care. We dug her a grave out at Holy Cross Abbey Where many the exile a grave has found there; One small sprig of shamrock we planted above her And she sleeps her last slepp far far from Derry so fair.
-Joe Offer- |
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15 Oct 08 - 02:08 PM (#2466497) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arriving From: Rog Peek No, but nice song. Not one to cheer you up though. Rog |
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15 Oct 08 - 05:33 PM (#2466685) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arriving From: Thompson It seems to be in this thread |
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16 Oct 08 - 05:15 AM (#2467035) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arriving From: ardmacha2 the song you mention must be Isle of Hope isle of tears,which tells of Annie Moore arriving in Ellis Island in 1892.The Lyrics for this song are posted on this thread |
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16 Oct 08 - 09:55 AM (#2467220) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arriving From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle "Suffolk Miracle, what's the title of this one? Young Buchan calls it "Derry So Fair" in this thread (click), but wasn't completely sure about the source." It appears in Robin Morton's book Folksongs Sung In Ulster,and there is a recording of it on Volume 1 of the two volume LP set of the same name. I have a copy of both, but cannot easily lay my hands on either - moved house last year and much stuff still in boxes! |
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16 Oct 08 - 01:14 PM (#2467435) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arriving From: MartinRyan Joe/Suffolk Miracle Now I'm confused!There IS a song in Morton's book called "Annie Moore" but it's nothing to do with those discussed here (It's about a sectarian incident in the 19th. century). I see nothing there that resembles the one you quote, though. Regards |
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17 Oct 08 - 01:12 PM (#2468382) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arriving From: GUEST,Seaking "....in case we caught short, going to New York, far away from the Shamrock Shore. Any help here ? |
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17 Oct 08 - 01:19 PM (#2468392) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about Irish imigrant girl arriving From: MartinRyan That's from a song usually called "Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore" - which is lying around here somewhere! Regards |