Paddy's Land (III)

DESCRIPTION: "Come, all you songs of Paddy's land, who are inclined to roam To reap the English harvest so far away from home.... You'll have to fight both day and night 'gainst John Bull and his crew." They sail to New York, where they find many Irish already there
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1901 (Hylands-Mammoth-Hibernian-Songster)
KEYWORDS: Ireland emigration
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hylands-Mammoth-Hibernian-Songster, p. 112, 'Paddy's Land" (1 text)
Roud #12987
NOTES [30 words]: Roud seems to lump this with an item in Greig-Duncan about travel from Ireland to Scotland also called "Paddy's Land," but they don't have much in common in terms of content. - RBW
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File: HMHS112B

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