Adieu My Native Land Adieu

DESCRIPTION: "Adieu, my native land, adieu, The vessel spreads her swelling sails; Perhaps I never more may view Your fertile hills, your flowering dales." The singer bids farewell to all, and asks the wind "to find The peace which fate denies me here"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1847 (Journal from the Cortes)
KEYWORDS: emigration ship separation
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Huntington-SongsTheWhalemenSang, pp. 238-239, "Adieu My Native Land" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hylands-Mammoth-Hibernian-Songster, p. 10, "Adieu, My Native Land, Adieu" (1 text)
Roud #13891
File: HSWS238

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