Mary Brady's Farewell to Glasgow
Who Sailed 19th of September, 1883.
Air. As soon as the war is over,
Mary Brady is my name
In Barrhead I was born,
Where my friends reared me tenderly
And kept me from all harm.
But I must bid adieu to my comrades
And all I love behind,
I am a young adventurer
Bound for a foreign clime.
When I think on my childhood days
Many tears I'll shed,
When I look back on happy days
I with my school mates led.
When I think on my native place
I may never see it more,
The wee thatch house I'll mind it weel
And the [burn] before the door.
I came one day to Glasgow
With my heart both light and full,
In a place well known as Bridgetown
I will always mind it still.
Where many a happy day and night
In pleasure mirth and glee,
Glasgow I will think on you
When I am far across the sea.
My tickets were sent by a comrade
To go without delay,
Prepare myself and go at once
Out to America.
Without any hesitation
I then resolved to go,
And cross the wide Atlantic
Where stormy winds do blow.
My uncle's house the night before
The neighbors gathered in,
With voices sweet and songs complete
That would make the valleys ring.
The night was spent in merriment
With whisky in galore,
Till the morning we had to part
Perhaps for evermore.
My [unvoy] every are went with me to the guay
Where the ship it lay prepared to sail
And [phengh] the angry sea
I shook hands and said adieu
To all my friends around,
God be with you one and all
Farewell to Glasgow town.
