26 Feb 04 - 06:08 PM (#1124736) Subject: Lyr Req: Old Donegal From: GUEST,owencorcoran@shaw.ca 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 |
26 Feb 04 - 07:02 PM (#1124771) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Old Donegal From: Brakn It's a Percy French song called "The Emigrant's Letter". See here! |