"Irish Emigrant Ballads and Songs"
Wright
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CHAPTER IX THE STAGE IRISHMAN

THE BROGUE                                                                                555
"When I came to this country 'twas late in the fall,"
Source: Broadside, Andrews, New York Located: Library Company of Philadelphia

BUTTERMILK AND PRATIES                                                               556
"Ye may talk about your suppers grand,"
Source: Broadside, J. Wrigley, New York Located: Library Company of Philadelphia

CINCINNATI, O-HO-O                                                                        557
"Oh, good evening, one and all,"
Source: Kearny and Powers Versatile Comedian Songster, 15. Located:   Library of Congress

THE DONEVANS                                                                        558
"We came from dear old Ireland,"
Source: Miss St. George Hussey's The Ship That Brought Me Over Songster 40. Located: Brown University (John Hay Library)

EMIGRANTS                                                                                559
"Now here I am a Munster boy, from Ennis all the way;" Source: Johnny Patterson's Great Inter-Ocean Circus Songster, 2. Located: Library of Congress

ERIN'S ISLE                                                                                560
"Here I am, an Irish Lad, that you can plainly see,"
Source: Love of the Shamrock Songster, 15.   Located: Brown University (John Hay Library)

GOOD-BYE JOHNNY                                                                        561
"Just twenty years ago to-day,"
Source:   Walton's 132 Best Irish Songs and Ballads, 41.

HOW PADDY STOLE THE ROPE                                                        562
"There were once two Irish laboring men, to America they came over,"
Source: Irish Com-All-Ye's, 68-69.

INNOCENT MIKE                                                                        563
"I am a wandering Irishman, they call me Innocent Mike,"
Source: Broadside, Andrews, New York Located: Boston Public Library

IRELAND AND AMERICA                                                                       564
"I love my native country,"
Source: Dan Nash's New Original Barney the Guide Songster, 7. Located: University of Texas Library

THE IRISH EMIGRANTS                                                                565
"We are two Irish Emigrants, as you may plainly see,"
Source: Broadside, no imprint Located: Mitchell Library, Glasgow

I THINK OF OLD IRELAND, WHEREVER I GO                                                566
"I'm a wanderer now from the land of my birth,"
Source: Broadside, Horace Partridge, Boston Located: Boston Public Library

JOLLY IRISHMEN*                                                                        567
"I am a jolly Irishman, from Ireland sure I came;" Source: Songs of Yesterday, 209-211.

LAMENT OF AN IRISH MOTHER*                                                               570
"Ah! little did I think my boy"
Source:   Sheet music, Sarles & Adley, New York [1852] Located:   Library of Congress

LARRY MORGAN, OR THE CALIFORNIA EMIGRANT                                        574
"God save you all, I'm home at last; this minute afther landing,"
Source: Phil J. Gannon's Original Irish Songster, 52-53. Located: Brown University (John Hay Library)

THE MAGUIRES*                                                                        575
"Sure we're the boys from County Clare,"
Source: Sheet music, Wm. A. Pond, Chicago [1881] Located:   Library of Congress
Also in Miss St. George Hussey's The Ship That Brought Me Over Songster.

OFF TO PHILADELPHIA*                                                                578
"My name is Paddy Leary,"
Source: Sheet music, National Music Co., Chicago. Copyright 1916 by Jerome H. Remick, New York Located: Free Library of Philadelphia

OULD IRISH STEW                                                                        585
"I've travel'd across the wide ocean,"
Source: Broadside, H. DeMarsan, New York Located:   Library Company of Philadelphia

OVER THERE IN IRELAND                                                                586
Same first line
Source: Kearny and Powers Versatile Comedian Songster, 48. Located: Library of Congress

PADDY MILES                                                                                587
"From the big town of Limerick lately I came,"
Source: Broadside, H. DeMarsan, New York Located: Library Company of Philadelphia

PADDY MILES'S BOY                                                                        588
"When I was born in Limerick, my daddy and my mammy, O!"
Source: The Exile of Erin's Songster, 12-14. Located: Harvard University Library

PADDY'S TRIP TO AMERICA                                                                589
"I left my native shore last May,"
Source: Phil J. Gannon's Original Irish Songster, 49-50. Located: Brown University (John Hay Library)

PAT McCARTY                                                                               591
"Och, my name is Pat McCarty,"
Source: Broadside, H. DeMarsan, New York Located:   Library of Congress

THE POOR OPPRESSED IN IRELAND                                                        592
"Dear isle of fame and beauty, thy shores have long been trod"
Source: Love of the Shamrock Songster, 24. Located: Brown University (John Hay Library)

THE SHIP THAT BROUGHT ME OVER                                                        593
"I left ould Ireland far behind"
Source: Miss St. George Hussey's The Ship That Brought Me Over Songster, 9-10. Located: Brown University (John Hay Library)
This song may owe something to THE BOAT THAT FIRST BROUGHT ME OVER, in which Patrick goes to Scotland (broadside, no imprint, the Newberry Library).

SINCE TERRY FIRST JOINED THE GANG*                                                595
"My name is Mike Slattery,"
Source: Sheet music, E. H. Harding, New York [1875] Source: Library of Congress Also on a broadside printed by Bell of San Francisco (Boston Public Library).

SOAP FAT MAN                                                                               596
"Och I am a grate Irishman, from Cork I have came,"
Source: Broadside, J. H. Johnson, Philadelphia Located: Library Company of Philadelphia

SOLD, SOLD EVERYWHERE                                                                597
"Oh, I am an Irishman,"
Source: Kearny and Powers Versatile Comedian Songster, 6. Located: Library of Congress

TEDDY McGLYNN                                                                               598
"I left me ould mother wid one little brother,"
Source: "My Father Sould Charcoal" Songster, 36. Also in O'Conor. Located: Library of Congress

TIM FLAHERTY                                                                               599
"I'm a light hearted Paddy,"
Source: Songs of Yesterday, 203-205.

THE TWO O'DONAHUES                                                                602
"We came from Tipperary a few short weeks ago," Source: The Flying Cloud, 30. Located: Minnesota Historical Society

JUST OVER                                                                                603
"I came from Tiperary,"
Source: Kearny and Powers Versatile Comedian Songster, 21. Located:   Library of Congress. A variant.

WILD IRISHMAN                                                                        604
"When first I arrived in America's town,"
Source: Broadside, J. Wrigley, New York Located: Library Company of Philadelphia