The North of Amerikay

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T:The North of Amerikay
B:Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
R:song
H:  Learned when I was a child and now written from memory.  There was a
H:song to it which was composed during the American war, as this first verse
H:indicates:
W:The seventeenth of June last by the dawning of the day,
W:Our ship she cast an anchor and landed in the bay;
W:Then our brave heroes bold they quickly marcheed away
W:To fight the Boston rebels in the north of Amerikay.
H:"The Battle of King's Bridge," the English version of the words of this
H:song, may be seen in the "Journal of the Folk Song Society," Vol. II, p. 90.
H:The air bears some slight resemblance to mine.
L:1/8
M:C
K:G
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Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/AllanGarvin/All/0014
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/AllanGarvin/NorthOfAmerikay/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/OTIS_Irish_Session/melnets_big_abc_file/13874
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/kirby98.fsnet.co.uk/no/North_of_Amerikay_1/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/melnets_big_abc_file/13874