The Emigrant's Lament (1990s version)
Channel: Culture Vannin
Date: 27/03/2019

An authentic 19th century song which has never been published and only survives thanks to three generations of Manx people;
'The Emigrant's Lament'

This version of the song has the final verse composed in the 1990s by Mary Ward Utterback of Illinois, whose own family papers provided the source of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th verses.
It is performed here by Keith Teare, whose grandfather, Willie Teare, brought the song to the Isle of Man in 1893 when he returned from his time working in the mines in Colorado.

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