Lyr Add: The Day That I Kem Over

Subject: Lyr Add: THE DAY THAT I KEM OVER
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 08:13 PM

Lyr. Add: THE DAY THAT I KEM OVER
Music David Braham, lyrics Ed Harrigan

From a little bog in sweet Kildare
Where my parents' home did stand,
I ran away one summer's day,
To sail to a foreign land;
'Twas tedious trip on board the ship
Whin I wint forth a rover,
And noon and night did fill my eyes
The day that I kem over.

Chorus
With deep regret I pine and fret,
No friends around me hover,
I'm all alone, without a home
Since the day that I kem over.

Oh I remember well the morn
I bid Ireland goodbye,
The sun was beaming brightly
In the blue and cloudless sky.
With an aching heart I gazed
upon her fields of turf and clover,
I bowed my head and nothing said,
The day that I kem over.

Chorus:

I thought of my poor father,
As the ship from shore did part,
When he'd miss his darling Danny,
'Twould break the ould man's heart.
My gray-haired, good ould mother,
God bless her, how I love her!
It's my belief, she died from grief,
Since the day that I kem over.

Sheet music, words by Ed Harrigan, Music by David Braham, sung by Harrigan and Hart, published 1874, Boston, John E. Perry & Co.; W. A. Pond, New York, etc.
A sketch was performed with the song.
The Day That i Kem Over
Levy Sheet Music Collection.