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Alternative title: The Irish Emigrant

Performer: Brazil, Danny
Place Collected: Elmstone Hardwicke
Date collected: 1995 (13 Apr)
Collector: Davies, Gwilym
Roud Number: 2661

This sentimental song was printed very often on broadsides in the 1800s and reprinted in various Irish song collections as “The Irish Immigrant” or “The Irish Immigrant’s Lament”. For all its popularity in the printed form, it has been collected relatively few times, in Canada, the USA, Northern Ireland and England.

Notes by Gwilym Davies 15 April 2015

Media & Downloads

Hear the song/tune as collected (mp3 stream):

See the song/tune as collected (PDF file)
Hear the song/tune (midi file)
Version to sing (PDF file)
Hear a version to sing (midi file)
Song/tune as collected (abc file)
Version to sing (abc file)