Lyr Req: sad was the news ... to Lake Ainslie

30 Jul 01 - 04:17 PM (#517894)
Subject: Lake Ainslie
From: GUEST,[e-mail]

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

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30 Jul 01 - 06:01 PM (#517917)
Subject: RE: Lake Ainslie
From: Sorcha

No luck at all with Google.

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04 Dec 11 - 05:45 PM (#3268486)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lake Ainslie
From: GUEST

[e-mail] I am wondering if you found the lyrics to this song as I am also looking for them

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04 Dec 11 - 07:17 PM (#3268534)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lake Ainslie
From: Sandy Mc Lean

I can't say that I ever heard this song but I would like to have it as well. Stanley Collins wrote many songs about the Lake Ainslie area and I thought it may have been one of his, but I called his folk-singing son and he did not know it but said it wasn't one of his father's.
Sorry but not much help.

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