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Thread #37180   Message #517894
Posted By: GUEST,ewanclark@hotmail.com
30-Jul-01 - 04:17 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: sad was the news ... to Lake Ainslie
Subject: Lake Ainslie
I'm looking for the words to a Cape breton folk song that I heard in my youth because I can't remember all of it.

It begins something like this:

Sad was the news that they brought to Lake Ainslie
Sad was the news and the message they brung
Poor (Sally ______) was a dying in Boston, boys,
Dying in Boston, given over for dead.

Has anyone ever heard of it or better yet do you know the full version. I would be eternally grateful for it is a fine song and one that I's lkke to have in my repetoire.

Ewan "Sudsy" Clark