NORTH OF AMERIKAY (THE)
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Rhythm: song
Key: G
Meter: C
Book: Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
History: Learned when I was a child and now written from memory. There was a
song to it which was composed during the American war, as this first verse
indicates:
"The Battle of King's Bridge," the English version of the words of this
song, may be seen in the "Journal of the Folk Song Society," Vol. II, p. 90.
The air bears some slight resemblance to mine.
Words:
The seventeenth of June last by the dawning of the day,
Our ship she cast an anchor and landed in the bay;
Then our brave heroes bold they quickly marcheed away
To fight the Boston rebels in the north of Amerikay.
Key: G
Meter: C
Book: Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
History: Learned when I was a child and now written from memory. There was a
song to it which was composed during the American war, as this first verse
indicates:
"The Battle of King's Bridge," the English version of the words of this
song, may be seen in the "Journal of the Folk Song Society," Vol. II, p. 90.
The air bears some slight resemblance to mine.
Words:
The seventeenth of June last by the dawning of the day,
Our ship she cast an anchor and landed in the bay;
Then our brave heroes bold they quickly marcheed away
To fight the Boston rebels in the north of Amerikay.
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