Irishmen Now Going to America, The

DESCRIPTION: Irish emigrants land at Philadelphia and find work digging the canal. Diggers being irresistable to women. Paddy marries a woman with $2000 and 200 acres. Chorus bids farewell father and mother, adieu sisters and brothers
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1880 (Moulden-ThousandsAreSailing)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage emigration farewell travel canal sea ship work humorous brother family father mother sister worker
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1824 - Beginning of construction on the Pennsylvania Canal, eventually connecting Philadelphia to Pittsburgh and other points. Main construction continued until about 1840, with occasional work thereafter (e.g. the lake that caused the Johnstown Flood was dammed starting in the late 1830s as part of the project)
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Moulden-ThousandsAreSailing, pp. 38-39, "The Irishmen Now Going to America" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #V49614
File: MTAS038

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