The song of the Emigrant.
[Dundee] : Poet's Box, 190 & 192 Overgate Dundee,
[1880-1900?]
Dated from examination of text and style.
'Copies of this song can always be had at the Poet's Box, 190 & 192 Overgate Dundee'.
First line reads: I'm lying on a foreign shore, / An hear the birdies sing, / They speak to me o' Auld Langsyne, / An' sunny memories bring, / Oh but tae see a weel kent face, / Or hear a Scottish lay, / As sung in years lang, lang bye-gane, / They haunt me nicht and day.
Ballads, English
Emigration and immigration