Granua's lament round O'Connells's grave.
[Scotland? : s.n.,
1880?]
Dated from internal evidence - Tay Bridge - This ballad refers to the Tay Bridge disaster. The middle section of the Tay Railway Bridge collapsed in hurrcane-force winds on the night of 28 December, 1879 while a train was crossing it. The seventy-five people on board the train were all killed.
Granua's lament round O'Connells's grave - first lines read: You mourning sons of this afflicted nation, / Attend with pity to my sad appeal, / For loud and long is the lamentations, / That swells the shores of pure Granuale; / A nations tears on the sad occasion, / Proclaims the loss of the last and brave, / On sable garments of desolation, / Poor Granua weeps round O'Connell's grave.
Tay Bridge - first lines read: Christmas time while mirth abounded, / Thro the country far and wide, / Happy homes are turned to sadness, / Dear friends in death lay side by side / Young and old upon the railway, / In the fatal train that day, / Litle thought to death were going, / From this life they've passed away.
The poor forsaken village maid - first lines read: A village maid she sat weeping / She thought of happy days gone by, / And as her darling babe lay sleeping / A tear fell gently from her eye. / She tho ught of home and her deceiver / Poor girl by him she was betrayed, / She's left alone now broken hearted, / The poor forsaken village maid.
In three columns with an illustration above the second.
Three ballads.
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847
Ballads, English
Tay Bridge Disaster, Dundee, Scotland, 1879