Yankee Shore

DESCRIPTION: "As I roved out one morning, being in the lovely month of May," the singer meets a girl. If she'd marry, he would take her to America. Though her father agrees, her parents grieve "when I took her from her parents and land her safe on the Yankee shore"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1958 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: courting marriage emigration beauty sea America Ireland father mother sailor
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Peacock, pp. 233-234, "Yankee Shore" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6462
RECORDINGS:
Freeman Bennett, "Yankee Shore" (on PeacockCDROM) [one verse only]
File: Pea233

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