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Thread #169474 Message #4095728
Posted By: Felipa
02-Mar-21 - 04:47 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Marina Jane by Gerry Creen
Subject: Lyr Req: Marina Jane by Gerry Creen
Tonight I listened to someone telling the true story of the foundling "Marina Jane" so I was reminded of Gerry Creen's song about Marina Jane but I only know fragments of the lyrics.
background: "Based on the well documented true story of a new born baby girl, found in a rowing boat that had washed ashore, the mother having died in childbirth. The child is adopted by a family in Ballygally on the Antrim coast and eventually marries a local lad who is lost at sea. Marina Jane Parke in despair sets up home in a stone shelter on the beach to await her husband’s return. Tragically on the night of the 21st December 1894 she is washed back out to sea and drowned in a fierce storm." ( http://www.gerrycreen.com/-a-rose-by-any-other-name/ )
I asked about the song once before (within a threed about a different singer with a similar name, Crean instead of Creen) but no one came up with the lyiics. Npw that recordings are on line, perhaps someone with better hearing and more patience tan me might transcribe lyrics from the recoding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P94ml9dqpc