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

Chapters 4 and 5:


Chapter 4 – Some Well Known Emigrants

Title - First Line

The Exile of Erin (Irish and English) - "There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin"

The Irish Emigrant (plus two variants) - "I'm sitting by the stile Mary"

Sequel To The Irish Emigrant - "Oh! Mary, I should happy be, if you was but alive"

Answer to the Irish Emigrant - "I'm coming back to you, Mary, Australia's shores I find"

Parody on the Irish Emigrant - "I'm sitting on a rail, Judy"

Lament of the Good Irish Hunter - "I'm sitting on the stile, Mary"

A Parody on the Lament of the Irish Emigrant - "I'm traveling on the Isle, Sarah, through drifts and banks of snow"

Pat Molloy - "At sixteen years of age, I was my mother's fair-haired boy"

Return of Pat Molloy - "When I landed safe in Dublin-town, I met a castle-back – "

Parody on Pat Molloy - "At sixty years of age, I was my mother's gray-hair boy"

O'Reilly the Fisherman (plus four variations) - "As I roved out one evening fair down by a riverside"

Young Riley - "First in dis country I came a stranger"

Young Riley - "As I was walking through the county of Cavan"

Susan & Young Riley - "You tender maidens I pray draw near"

The Wexford Lovers - "You tender maidens I pray draw near"


Chapter 5 – Hazards of the Crossing

Title - First Line

A New Song on the Melancholy Loss of the Emigrant Ship, Anglo-Saxon - "I call on every Irishman to listen to my song"

Lines, Written on the Wreck of the Anglo-Saxon - "Attention pay both young and old, I hope you'll lend an ear"

Bold McCarthy (The City of Baltimore) - "Come all you true-born Irishmen, a story I will tell"

Burning of an Emigrant Ship - "Come all ye Irish people"

Dreadful Catastrophe at Sea, Burning of the Ship "Austria" - "You feeling-hearted christians through this country"

Captain Colston - "You landsmen all, on you I call, you heroes stout and brave"

Captain Thompson - "My mind being much inclined to cross the raging main"

The Distress of the American, New York - "Come all ye rakish young men, that does intend to roam"

Dublin Bay (Roy Neill) - "They sailed away, in a gallant bark"

The Emigrants - "To the New York Trainer I do belong"

The Glasgow - "All you who love your native land and mean to emigrate"

Lamentable Lines on the Burning of the "Cospatrick" - "You feeling-hearted Christians wherever that you be"

Lamentable Lines on the Dreadful Shipwreck in America - "Of a terrible shipwreck we are told, the Columbus was her name"

The Wreck of the Columbus - "Kind friends, if you will list a while, a sad tale I'll relate"

Lamentable Lines Written on the Total Loss of the Baroque Edmond - "You landsmen all I pray attend and to me lend an ear"

Lamentation of the Loss of an Emigrant Ship - "You inhabitants of Ireland I hope you will lend an ear"

A Lamentation on the Loss of the St. George - "Draw near each tender Christian, assist my feeble hand"

Lament for the Loss of the Ship Union - "When I was young and in my prime"

The Loss of the Atlantic Steamship - "You feeling-hearted Christians of high and low degree"

The Loss of the Belfast Lark - "Come all you faithful christians I hope you will draw near"

The Loss of the Convict Ship That Sailed From the Cove of Cork - "Come all you tender Christians that hear my tale of woe"

The Loss of the "Exmouth" - "Come all you worthy people all round the shamrock shore"

The Loss of the Jupiter - "You landsmen all pay attention, and listen to my theme"

The Lady of the Lake - "One evening as I chanced to stray along the banks of the Clide"

The Loss of the Lady of the Lake - You inhabitants of Ireland, attend to what I say"

Loss of the Pomona, & 380 Souls - "All you who live at home on land, come listen unto me"

The Pomona - "As I roved out one morning just at the early dawn"

The Loss of the Rob Roy - "Draw near you gallant seamen, bold and you land men also"

The Loss of the Ship Jane Maria - "Come all you gallant seamen bold, that ploughs the raging main"

Loss of the Ship Newry - "Give ear you tender hearted until that I relate"

A New Irish Song - "Let every jovial Irish soul desirous of promotion"

The Ship Eliza - "Come all you young men that live in Ireland"

A Sorrowful Lamentation on the Late Shipwrecks - "You landsmen all on you I call, and gallant seamen too"

Sorrowful Lamentation on the Loss of the "Annie Jane" - "You husbands, wives, and children, that lives in Erin's shore"

Sorrowful Lamentation on the Loss of the North Star - "You landsmen all, on you I call, and gallant seamen too"

The Sorrowful Lamentation for the Loss of the Royal Ship Highbernia - "Good people all I pray attend and listen unto me"

The Wreck of the Rebecca - "When first I thought on Americay"