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Thread #9501   Message #61625
Posted By: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
06-Mar-99 - 07:10 PM
Thread Name: Songs of emigration
Subject: RE: Songs of emmigration
"Many Young Men of Twenty". "Kilkelly", a particularly sad one which is in the database.

"Scarborough Settler's Lament", from Canada, which is in the database in a rather corrupt form. Stan Rogers did the best recorded version, and the tune is the same as "O' A' the Airts The Wind Can Blaw". Speaking of Stan, his "The Idiot" is an emigration song of sorts too.

"Spancil Hill", too.