The Emigrant's Letter-John Roche

[ti:The Emigrant's Letter] [ar:John Roche] [al:Songs of Percy French's Ireland] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Emigrant's Letter - John Roche [00:10.21]Dear Danny I'm taking the pen in me hand [00:16.36]To tell you we're just out of sight of the land [00:21.35]In the grand Allan liner I'm sailing in style [00:26.70]But I'm sailing away from the Emerald Isle [00:32.35]A strange sort of sigh seemed to come from us all [00:37.75]As the waves hid the lad bit of auld Donegal [00:43.84]Oh it's well to be you that is takin' yer tay [00:49.45]Where they're cuttin' the corn in Creeslough today [00:55.71] [01:01.31]There's a woman on board who knows Katie by sight [01:07.41]And we talked of auld times 'till they put out the light [01:12.40]I'm to meet the good woman tomorra' on deck [01:17.70] [01:18.47]Sure we'll talk about Katie from this to Quebec [01:23.61]I know I'm not match for her no not in the least [01:28.54]With her house and two cows and her brother a priest [01:35.10]But the woman declares Katie's heart's on the sea [01:41.78]While mines with the reapers round Creeslough the day [01:47.92] [01:54.11]Goodbye to you Danny no more's to be said [02:00.20]And I think the salt water's got into me head [02:05.56]For it drips from me eyes when I call to me mind [02:11.76]The friends and the coleen I'm leaving behind [02:16.97] [02:17.49]And still she might wait when I bid her goodbye [02:22.63]There was just the least taste of a tear in her eye [02:29.33]And a break in her voice when she said [02:34.52]You might stay [02:36.91]But please God you'll come back to auld Creeslough some day