Adieu to Erin (The Emigrant)

DESCRIPTION: "Oh when I breathed a last adieu To Erin's vales and mountains blue...." The singer loves Mary, but Mary "deplores" him; he responds by leaving the country. "Can I forget the fateful day... When nought was left me but to say Farewell my love farewell"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1808 (The Irish Musical Repository)
KEYWORDS: love separation emigration rejection
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Huntington-SongsTheWhalemenSang, pp. 255-256, "Adieu to Erin" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: (no author listed), _The Irish Musical Repository: A Choice Selection of Esteemed Irish Songs, Adapted for the Voice, Violin, and German Flute_, B. Crosby & Company, Edinburgh, 1808 (available on Google Books or hathitrust.org), "Oh! When I Breath'd a Last Adieu" (1 text, 1 tune)
ST SWMS255 (Full)
Roud #2068
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Withing this Village Dwells a Maid" (tune, according to The Irish Musical Repository)
NOTES [34 words]: I strongly doubt this was ever traditional, but Jim Dixon tells me he found twenty copies of this song in print, including the one cited above, so it was clearly popular in some sort of literary circles. - RBW
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File: SWMS255

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