Adieu to Nova Scotia

Adieu to Nova Scotia The sun had sunk all in the west, The birds sang sweet in ev’ry tree All nature seemed inclined to rest But oh, there is no rest for me I grieve to leave my native land, I grieve to leave my comrades dear, My tender parents that I love so well…

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Farewell to Nancy

Carrie Grover Project · Carrie Grover – Farewell To Nancy Download sheet music (pdf) I’ve travelled this country both early and late. I’ve travelled this country when hard was my fate Fell in love with a pretty fair maid, but she does me disdain. Oft times she has slighted me, but I’ll try her again.…

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Farmer’s Boy

The sun had set behind the hill, across the dreary moor, When wet and cold there came a boy, up to the farmer’s door “Can you tell me,” said he “If any there be, Who would like to give employ For to plow, for to sow, for to harrow and to mow For to be…

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Adieu to Old Ireland

Adieu to Old Ireland Here’s adieu to old Ireland the place where I was born Near the county of Lim’rick all vanished and gone. On some distant island bound down as a slave. It was in my own country I first misbehaved. It is of my dear mother, how she cautioned me To leave off…

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George Riley

Carrie Grover Project · Carrie Grover – George Riley Download sheet music (pdf) When I arrived in the county Antrim To view the banks fo the sweet harmony, I espied a damsel so fair and handsome you would really have thought she was the queen of May/ I stepped up to her, I did salute…

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Girl I Left Behind

My parents reared me tenderly. They had no child but me. But I being fond of roving with them did not agree. Then I became a rover soon which grieved their hearts full sore. I left my aged parents never to see them more. There was a wealthy gentleman resided in that part He had…

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