Sally Munro.
[Scotland? : s.n.,
1830?]
Dated from internal evidence - The 'Newry' en route to Canada from Ireland was lost in Caernarfon Bay on Friday 16th April, 1830. Initial reports (and the text of the ballad) claimed that over 200 lives were lost, but, thanks largely to the assistance of some local men, the number of casualties was around 20.
In one column.
First lines read: Come all you young females I pray you attend, / Unto these few lines that I have here pen'd; / I'll tell you the hardships I did undergo, / With my bonny lass called Sally Munro, / James Dixon's my name, I'm a blacksmith by [t]rade / In the town of Ayr I was born and bred, / From that unto Belfast I lately did go.
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