Over the Mountain Wave

DESCRIPTION: "Pilgrims and wanderers Hither we come Here the free dare to be This is our home." Welcome the immigrants from England, Scotia ... "native land, Home far away."
AUTHOR: George Lunt (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
EARLIEST DATE: 1848 (A. N. Johnson and Jason White, _The Young Minstrel_)
KEYWORDS: emigration home sea England Scotland nonballad foreigner migrant
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Frank-JollySailorsBold 195, "Over the Mountain Wave" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dime-Song-Book #1/64, p. 28, and #1/72, p. 28, "Over the Mountain" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: A.N. Johnson and Jason White, _The Young Minstrel_ (Boston: George P Reed, 1848 ("Digitized by Internet Archive")), pp. 72-73, "Over the Mountain Wave" ("Over the mountain wave See where they come") (1 text, 1 tune)
George W Clark, _The Harp of Freedom_ (New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856 ("Digitized by Internet Archive")), p. 123, "Pilgrim Song" ("Over the mountain wave See where they come") (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #31318
NOTES [30 words]: The chorus from Johnson and White is, "Pilgrims and wanderers, Hither we come; Where the free dare to be, This is our home!" Frank-JollySailorsBoold has "Here the free dare to be." - BS
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File: FJSB195

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