"Irish Emigrant Ballads and Songs"
Wright
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CHAPTER II - FAREWELL

ACROSS THE WESTERN OCEAN*                                                           115
"O the times are hard" Source: Whall, Sea Songs and Shanties, 49-50.

AN ADMIRED SONG CALLED THE POOR IRISH STRANGER                                117
"Ah pity the fate of a poor Irish stranger,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: National Library of Ireland. Wide circulation, especially in England.

BEAUTIFUL ERIN                                                                        118
"Beautiful Erin! I leave thy shore,"
Source: Erin-Go-Bragh Songster, 32. Located: Library of Congress

THE BRIGHT LAND OF FREEDOM                                                        118
"Attend for a while to these lines that I now mention"
Source: Sent me by James Seery of Greystones, Ireland. He credits "John Seery, born Westmeath, Ireland, 1895, who got it from Charlie Gahagan, (1830-c. 1910)."

CAMPBELL'S FAREWELL TO IRELAND                                                        119
"Farewell to old Ireland, the place of my Nativity,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint (but probably P. Brereton, Dublin) Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin. The Boston Public Library also has a broadside by this title with no imprint but probably printed in Ireland.
Also in the Royal Irish Academy.

CLOUGHWATER OR THE SHAMROCK SHORE*                                                  120
"My friends and comrades, pray pay attention,"
Source: Sam Henry Collection Located: Central Library, Belfast. Originally published in the Northern Constitution, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

COME ALL YOU TRUE BRED IRISHMEN                                                122
Same first line.
Source: Tape 93-640, Ivan Walton Collection. The singer was probably John W. Greer of Beaver Island (June 8, 1960). Located: Michigan Historical Collections, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The song may represent a telescoping of at least two other songs.

THE COUNTRY I'M LEAVING BEHIND                                                        123
"My barque leaves the harbour tomorrow,"
Source: Broadside, The Poet's Box, Dundee Located: National Library of Scotland

THE DONEGAL EMIGRANT                                                                123
"I've just left Donegal and I thought I'd give a call,"

Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: National Library of Ireland

THE EMIGRANT*                                                                        124
"The bark bounded swift o'er the blue swelling ocean,"
Source: Songs of the Gael, Ser. 2, 46-47. The air is not traditional with this song.

THE EMIGRANTS*        126
"Sad was the day we said farewell,"
Source:   Lampe, The Songs of Ireland, 138-139.

THE EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL                                                                129
"I'm leaving you at last, Mary, and all I love behind,"
Source: Broadside, J. Andrews, New York Located: Library Company of Philadelphia

THE EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL, FOR 1865                                                130
"Oh, sure, 'twould melt the hardest heart,"
Source: The New Emigrant Songster, 5. Located: British Museum

THE EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL TO BALLYSHANNON                                    131
"Farewell, my loyal comrades, for from you I must go,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: National Library of Scotland

THE EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL TO ERIN*                                                132
"O Gladstone, my darling, I bless you,"
Source: Sheet music, Alphonse Bertini, London, n.d. Located: British Museum

THE EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL TO IRELAND                                                137
"Adeiu farewell to all my freinds"
Source: Broadside, P. Brereton, Dublin Located: New York Public Library

THE EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL TO IRELAND                                                138
"Farewell to old Ireland, the land of my fathers,"
Source: Broadside, Haly, Cork Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin. A variant called EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL (broadside, Sanderson, Edinburgh) is in the University of Chicago Library.

THE EMIGRANT'S VOYAGE TO AMERICA*                                               139
"On the twenty-second day of March eighteen and ninety-four"
Source: Healy, Irish Ballads and Songs of the Sea, 52, 86-87.

ERIN, DEAR GOOD-BYE                                                                140
"I'm leaving now my native home,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Mitchell Library, Glasgow

ERIN, ADIEU!                                                                                141
"Adieu! to thee, Erin, a long last adieu!"
Source: Broadside, H. De Marsan, New York Located: Library Company of Philadelphia

ERINN, FAREWELL                                                                        142
"The last breeze from Erinn,"
Source: The New Emigrant Songster, 5. Located: British Museum

EVICTED FARMER'S FAREWELL                                                        143
"Farewell, farewell, my native shore,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Cambridge University Library. Also in the Royal Irish Academy.

THE EXILE*                                                                                144
"Farewell, and forever, my loved isle of sorrow,"
Source: O'Conor, Old-Time Songs and Ballads of Ireland, n.p,

THE EXILE (in Irish and English)*                                                                148, 149
"Farewell, farewell, dear land of mine,"
Source: Traditional Fo\k-Songs from Galway and Mayo, 148-149.

FAREWELL MY NATIVE LAND                                                                150
"I'm on the ocean and bound far away,
"Source: Broadside, W. Birmingham, London Located: Cambridge University Library

FAREWELL, LOVELY ERIN!*                                                               151
"Farewell, lovely Erin, from thee I must wander,"
Source: Songs of the Gael, series 4, 106-07.   
The editor notes that he found the song in the Dublin Penny Journal of 1834.

FAREWELL TO IRELAND                                                                       153
"Tho' on the great ship's deck I stand,"
Source: Broadside, J. Marsh, Philadelphia Located: Library Company of Philadelphia

FAREWELL TO IRELAND                                                                154
"Farewell unto the river Bann,"
Source: Broadside, Pitt, London Located: New York Public Library. (A variant in the same library [T. Birt, London] is called COMMIN'S FAREWELL TO IRELAND.)

FAREWELL TO THE VILLAGE*                                                                155
"At the dawn of the morning the ship will be sailing,"
Source: Journal of the Folk-Song Society, no. 10 [the first part of vol. Ill], (1907), 24-25. A variant appears in Ranson, Songs. of the Wexford Coast, 16-17.

A FAVOURITE SONG CALLED SHAN VAN VOUGHT'S FAREWELL TO IRELAND            157
"My sons are going away says the shan van vought,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Bodleian Library, Oxford

GOING FAR AWAY                                                                        158
"Arrah, boys, I am going to leave you but it's only for a while,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Mitchell Library, Glasgow

GOOD-BYE JOHNNY DEAR                                                                   159
"Just twenty years ago to-day,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Linenhall Library, Belfast

GOOD-BY, MIKE, GOOD-BY, PAT                                                        159
"The ship will sail in half an hour, to cross the broad Atlantic,"
Source: O'Conor, Irish Com-All-Ye's, 33.

THE GREEN FIELDS OF AMERICA                                                        160
"Farewell to the land of shillelagh and shamrock,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin. The New York Public Library holds a variant (no imprint) in which the emigrant leaves County Antrim.
Another variant appears in Wehman's Irish Song Book, 25.

THE IRISH EXILE*                                                                        161
"Oh! Where has the exile his home?" Source: Lampe, The Songs of Ireland, 35.

THE IRISHMANS FAREWEL TO HIS COUNTRY                                                163
"O farewell Ireland I'm going across the stormy main"
Source: Broadside, no imprint (possibly P. Brereton, Dublin) Located: Cambridge University Library. Also in The Shamrock Songster, 4.

THE IRISHMANs HOME                                                                        164.
"Farewell to the Cot on the Mountain"
Source: Broadside, P. Brereton, Dublin Located: New York Public Library

THE IRISH PATRIOT                                                                        164
"Last night while sitting on a deck, with my colleen by my hand,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint. Probably printed in Ireland. Located: New York Public Library

THE KILRANE BOYS                                                                        165
"On the thirteenth day of April in the year of Forty-four"
Source: Ranson, Songs . . . of the Wexford Coast, 74-75.

LAMENT OF THE EMIGRANT                                                                167
"And I must leave my native shores, and cross the distant seas;" Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Cambridge University Library

LEAVING ERIN                                                                                168
"Farewell, Erin, I now must leave you for to cross the raging main,"
Source: Dean, The Flying Cloud, 109-10. Located: Minnesota Historical Society

M'DERMOTT'S FAREWELL                                                                169
"As on the quay of Limerick's city I heard a young man say,"
Source: Chapbook, W. Kelly, Waterford Located: Trinity College (Dublin) Library. Also in Sparling, Irish Minstrelsy, 221-23.

MUIRSHEEN DURKIN                                                                        170
"In the days I went a courtin' " Source: The Guinness Book of Irish Ballads, 6.

A MUCH ADMIRED SONG CALL'D REMEMBER ME                                        170
"Our ship is ready to sail away,"
Source: Broadside, P. Brereton, Dublin Located: Royal Irish Academy. The Academy also holds a variant, no imprint.

A MUCH-ADMIRED SONG ENTITLED THE EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL TO HIS COUNTRY        171
"Now our ship is ready to bear away," Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Cleveland Public Library. A variant of the song above.

THE SHIP IS READY TO SAIL AWAY*                                                        172
Same first line
Source: Journal of the Folk-Song Society, III (1905-1906), 22-23. Another variant.

MY NATIVE IRISH HOME                                                                174
"Good bye to you poor Erin's Isle," Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Yale University Library

A NEW SONG CALLED THE EMEGRANTS FAREWELL TO DONEGALL                        175
"Good people all on you I call give ear to those lives you soon shall hear"
Source: Broadside, P. Brereton, Dublin Located: Boston Public Library

A NEW SONG CAL'D THE POOR WANDERRER SIGHS AND GRIEF ON PARTING HIS NATIVE LAND       176
"Oh Erin my country tho thousands did leave thee,"
Source: Broadside, P. Brereton, Dublin Located: Boston Public Library

A NEW SONG CALLED PADDY'S FAREWELL                                                177
"Farewell Belfast my native home dear friends I bid adieu,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint [ca. 1809] , Located: Royal Irish Academy

OLD MUD CABIN ON THE HILL                                                        178
"Go sell the pig and cow, Aggrah, to take you far away,"
Source: The Flying Cloud, 100-101. Located: Minnesota Historical Society

PAT MURPHY'S FAREWELL TO IRELAND                                                179
"I am leaving poor old Ireland to cross o'er the sea,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: National Library of Ireland

PATRICK FITZPATRICK'S FAREWELL TO IRELAND                                        180
"Adieu unto old Ireland, of you I take my last farewell"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Trinity College Library, Dublin

PATRIOT'S FAREWELL                                                                        182
"Farewell sweet Erin's lovely vale,"
Source: Broadside, Swindells, Manchester Located: New York Public Library

THE POOR IRISH BOY                                                                       183
"I am a poor boy born in Old Erin,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Yale University Library

POOR PAT MUST EMIGRATE                                                                184
"Farewell, you sons of Erin's Isle, I now must leave you for awhile,"
Source: Broadside, Fortey, London Located:   British Museum Some broadside variants include those by H. Disley, London (Boston Athenaeum); Moore, Belfast (National Library of Scotland); and H. DeMarsan, New York (Library Company of Philadelphia and the Newberry Library). The DeMarsan broadside gives the tune as "Pedgee and Rhu." Another broadside (no imprint) at the Newberry Library lists the air as "Apple Praters." Some variants refer to '98 and '95.

THE EMIGRANT* (melody only)                                                                186
"Farewell to poor old Erin's Isle!"
Source: Journal of the Folk-Song Society, V (1915-1916), 54. A variant of the previous song.

THE SHAMROCK SHORE*                                                                187
"Farewell, dear Erin's native isle,"
Source: "Irish Tunes Collected by Frank Kidson," Journal of the Folk-Song Society, no. 9 (the fourth part of vol. II), 1906, 255-56. At least two songs shared this title.

A MUCH-ADMIRED SONG CALLED THE IRISHMAN'S FAREWELL TO HIS COUNTRY-BOUND FOR AMERICA        188
"Farewell, dear Erin's lovely isle, for here I cannot stay,"
Source: Broadside, Haly, Cork Located: Bodleian Library, Oxford. A variant of THE SHAMROCK SHORE.

THE SHAMROCK SHORE* (a variant tune)                                                189
Source: Kidson, A Garland of English Folk-Songs, 52-53.

SHORES OF AMERIKAY                                                                190
"I'm bidding farewell to the land of my youth,"
Source: The Guinness Book of Irish Ballads, 5-6.

SLIEVE GALLON BRAE*                                                                191, 192
"As I went a-walking one morning in May,"
Source: Songs of the Gael, ser. 2, 76-77. Originally in Hardebeck, Gems of Melody, Part I.

SONG OF AN EXILE                                                                        192
"Farewell, and for ever, my loved isle of sorrow,"
Source: The Universal Irish Song Book, 223.

THE SONG OF THE EXILE.                                                                193
"O Erin!   for thee how oft I have sighed"
Source: Broadside, H. De Marsan, New York Located: Library Company of Philadelphia

SWEET COOTEHILL TOWN*                                                                194
"Now fare you well, sweet Cootehill town,"
Source: Joyce, Old Irish Folk Music and Songs, 191-92.

VOICE OF ERIN*                                                                        195, 200
"America dear Eden land,"
Source: Sheet music, Wm. Hall, New York [1832] Located: Library of Congress

WHAT PADDY CAN SAY MORE                                                        200
"Last night while sitting by the fire," Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: National Library of Ireland

WILD IRISH BOY                                                                        201
"Farewell to the dear land I leave far behind!"
Source: Broadside, H. De Marsan, New York Located: Brown University (John Hay Library)
Also in Irish Com-All-Ye's and as a J. Wrigley broadside in the Library of Congress and at the Library Company of Philadelphia.

THE WINDING BANKS OF BARROW OR THE CARLOW EMIGRANTS LAST ADIEU    202
"Adieu! my native place, and River Barrow, a last adieu;"
Source: Broadside, P. Kelly, Carlow Located: National Library of Ireland