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Summary: The song mourns sinking of the Great Lakes steamer The Lady Elgin and the deaths of passengers who drowned when she went down in Lake Michigan.

First Line: Come, all you lads and lassies, I pray you will attend

First Line: Young Charlotte lived by the mountain side in a wild and lonely spot

First Line: Come, all you railroad section hands, I hope you will draw near

Summary: James Downey is on the run after accepting a bounty (perhaps multiple bounties) to join the Union Army and thereafter fleeing with the money. Captured at last, he prefers death to revealing where his money is hidden. Downey is condemned,…

First Line: Come all you jolly shanty boys, wherever you may be

First Line: Sad and dismal is the story that I will tell to you

First Line: My name is Patrick Riley, the truth I will make known

First Line: One evening in June as I rambled