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22 Dec 04 - 08:13 PM (#1363657) Subject: Lyr Add: THE DAY THAT I KEM OVER From: Q (Frank Staplin) 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. |