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Posted By: ejsant
24-Apr-05 - 07:22 AM
Thread Name: Irish Emigrant Ballads and Songs Index
Subject: RE: Irish Emigrant Ballads and Songs Index
Greetings All,
Here is the second installment:
Index of Songs in Irish Emigrant Ballads and Songs As edited by Robert L. Wright And published by Bowling Green University Popular Press 1975 ISBN# 0-87972-104-9
Chapter 2 - Farewell
Title - First Line
Across the Western Ocean - "O the times are hard"
An Admired Song Called The Poor Irish Stranger - "Ah pity the fate of a poor Irish stranger"
Beautiful Erin - "Beautiful Erin! I leave thy shore"
The Bright Land of Freedom - "Attend for a while to these lines that I now mention"
Campbell's Farewell to Ireland - "Farewell to old Ireland, the place of my Nativity"
Cloughwater or The Shamrock Shore - "My friends and comrades, pray pay attention,"
Come All You True Bred Irishmen - Same first line
The Country I'm Leaving Behind - "My barque leaves the harbour tomorrow,"
The Donegal Emigrant - "I've just left Donegal and I thought I'd give a call"
The Emigrant - "The bark bounded swift o'er the blue swelling ocean"
The Emigrants - "Sad was the day we said farewell"
The Emigrant's Farewell - "I'm leaving you at last, Mary, and all I love behind"
The Emigrant's Farewell, For 1865 - "Oh, sure, 'twould melt the hardest heart"
The Emigrant's Farewell to Ballyshannon - "Farewell, my loyal comrades, for from you I must go"
The Emigrant's Farewell To Erin - "O Gladstone, my darling, I bless you"
The Emigrant's Farewell To Ireland - "Adelu farewell to all my friends"
The Emigrant's Farewell To Ireland - "Farewell to old Ireland, the land of my fathers,"
The Emigrant's Voyage to America - "On the twenty-second day of March eighteen and ninety-four"
Erin, Dear Good-Bye - "I'm leaving now my native home"
Erin, Adieu - "Adieu! to thee, Erin, a long last adieu!"
Erinn, Farewell - "The last breeze from Erinn,"
Evicted Farmer's Farewell - "Farewell, farewell, my native shore"
The Exile - "Farewell, and forever, my loved isle of sorrow"
The Exile (Irish and English) - "Farewell, farewell, dear land of mine"
Farewell My Native Land - "I'm on the obean and bound far away"
Farewell, Lovely Erin - "Farewell, lovely Erin, from thee I must wander"
Farewell To Ireland - "Tho' on the great ship's deck I stand"
Farewell To Ireland - "Farewell unto thee river Bann"
Farewell To The Village - "At the dawn of the morning the ship will be sailing"
A Favorite Song Called Shan Van Vought's Farewell to Ireland - "My sons are going away says the shan van vought"
Going Far Away - "Arrah, boys, I am going to leave you but it's only for a while"
Good-Bye Johnny Dear - "Just twenty years ago to-day"
Good-By, Mike, Good-By, Pat - "The ship will sail in half and hour, to cross the broad Atlantic"
The Green Fields of America - "Farewell to the land of shillelagh and shamrock"
The Irish Exile - "Oh! Where has the exile his home?"
The Irishman's Farewell To His Country - "O farewell Ireland I'm going across the stormy main"
The Irishman's Home - "Farewell to the Cot on the Mountain"
The Irish Patriot - "Last night while sitting on a deck, with my colleen by my hand"
The Kilrane Boys - "On the thirteenth day of April in the year of Forty-four"
Lament of the Emigrant - "And I must leave my native shores, and cross the distant seas"
Leaving Erin - "Farewell, Erin, I now must leave you for to cross the raging main"
M'Dermott's Farewell - "As on this quay of Limerick's city I heard a young man say"
Muirsheen Durkin - "In the days I went a courtin'"
A Much Admired Song Call'd Remember Me - "Our ship is ready to sail away"
A Much-Admired Song Entitled The Emigrants Farewell To His Country - "Now our ship is ready to bear away"
The Ship Is Ready To Sail Away - Same first line
My Native Irish Home - "Good bye to you poor Erin's Isle"
A New Song Called The Emigrant's Farewell To Donegall - "Good people all on you I call give ear to those lives you soon shall hear"
A New Song Cal'd The Poor Wanderrer Sighs And Grief On Parting His Native Land - "Oh Erin my country tho thousands did leave thee"
A New Song Called Paddy's Farewell - "Farewell Belfast, my native home dear friends I bid adieu"
Old Mud Cabin On The Hill - "Go sell the pig and cow, Aggrah, to take you far away"
Pat Murphy's Farewell to Ireland - "I am leaving poor old Ireland to cross oe'r the sea"
Patrick Fitzgerald's Farewell To Ireland - "Adieu unto old Ireland, of you I take my last farewell"