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Subject: RE: songs on emigration From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie Date: 03 Oct 07 - 09:00 PM An old one called "Across the Western Ocean" was discovered & recorded by (an American 'song catcher' named) Arthur Smith. Times are hard and the wages are low; Amelia, where you bound for? [This is always 2nd line.] The Rocky Mountains are my home, Across the Western Ocean. [Always fourth line] Beware the packet ships they say; Amelia ... They'll steal your clothes and stores away, Across... There's Liverpool Pat and his tarpaulin hat, Amelia ... And Yankee Jack, the packet rat, Across... Father and mother, don't you cry, Amelia ... Sister and brother, say good-bye, Across .... [Tag] Across the Western Ocean. |
Subject: RE: songs on emigration From: GeoffLawes Date: 03 Oct 07 - 05:38 PM Peta Webb's 1973 TOPIC LP, I HAVE WANDERED IN EXILE , includes The Moorlough Shore and The Lovely Banks Of Lea, as well as I Have Wandered In Exile, all of which are Irish emigrant songs full of the longing for home. This is a great LP by a great singer with a great voice who sings with total sympathy for the songs - certainly one of my desert island discs. The LP has been re-issued by a Japanese company as a CD under the series title of British Folk Paper Sleeve Collection and is distributed by Vivid Sound Corporation, VSCD-831, perhaps Camsco can get it? More readily available is Kate McGarrigle's song Jaques et Gilles about Canadian migration but also touching on Irish emigration. |
Subject: RE: songs on emigration From: bobad Date: 03 Oct 07 - 03:48 PM Buffy Sainte Marie wrote a song "Welcome, Welcome Emigrante" which is on The Best Of Broadside compilation released in 2000. I couldn't find the lyrics on line but I have the recording and can transcribe the lyrics if you would like them. |
Subject: RE: songs on emigration From: GUEST,Huw Date: 03 Oct 07 - 03:22 PM I have a song,written with Chris Hastings, called The Famine Ship about emigration from Ireland during the 1848 famine. Huw Pudner |
Subject: RE: songs on emigration From: GUEST,Chris Date: 03 Oct 07 - 03:01 PM Ian Tupling from LocTup Together wrote a beautiful song called "Leaving the Green". It's on the album "Further down the Road" |
Subject: RE: songs on emigration From: GUEST,Jim Carroll Date: 03 Oct 07 - 05:35 AM Sorry - Wright - it's a published thesis. Jim Carroll |
Subject: RE: songs on emigration From: GUEST,im Carroll Date: 02 Oct 07 - 02:52 PM There's a large, not very well produced book called 'Songs of Irish Emigration' by an American (? White?). Don't have it but saw it on Amazon once - pricey Jim Carroll |
Subject: RE: songs on emigration From: Ian Date: 02 Oct 07 - 12:07 PM Green Fields of Canada to recruit or enforced as in Transported such as Jim Jones, Botany Bay, or Slavery The Flying Cloud |
Subject: RE: songs on emigration From: Mark H. Date: 02 Oct 07 - 10:43 AM Robin Williamson, Songs of Love and Parting: "Return No More". |
Subject: RE: songs on emigration From: GUEST,Henryp Date: 02 Oct 07 - 10:14 AM Have you any particular origins or destinations in mind? |
Subject: RE: songs on emigration From: GUEST,songster Date: 02 Oct 07 - 09:56 AM Thanks Fred, a great help, I will have a look at that and buy it if possible. songester |
Subject: RE: songs on emigration From: Fred McCormick Date: 02 Oct 07 - 09:44 AM A lot of Lps and CDs of traditional Irish singing in English have one or two among emigration songs the track listings. However, I'd recommend Topic's exile/emigration disc in the series Voice of the People; FAREWELL, MY OWN DEAR NATIVE LAND. Songs of Exile & Emigration. Topic TSCD 654 |
Subject: RE: songs on emigration From: The Sandman Date: 02 Oct 07 - 09:40 AM Rambling irishman,Paddys green shamrock shore,van diemans land,englands motorways,cricklewood. |
Subject: songs on emigration From: GUEST,songester Date: 02 Oct 07 - 09:18 AM I am looking for songs on emigration, CD's, LP's, books anything . . can anyone point me in the right direction. I have a few but would like some more, traditional or modern. songester |
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