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First Line: I am a roving Irishman that roves from town to town

First Line: I am a bonnie lassie and I love my laddie well

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

Summary: Joe Bowers leaves Missouri for California to raise money to marry Sally. While there, he recieves a letter from his brother Ike informing him that she has married a red-haired man and has a red-haired baby. Joe Bowers is upset.

First Line: Come, all you lads of pleasure and rambling boys beware

First Line: Come all my boys and listen, a song I'll sing to you

Summary: A song describing a run on the "Dreadnaught" from Liverpool to New York. Most of the song is a catalog of places the ship visits

First Line: Near Linster I was born, not of a high degree

First Line: Come, all you bold sailors that follow the lakes

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