“Scarborough Settler's Lament”

Description

"Away wi' Canada's muddy creeks And Canada's fields of pine. Your land of wheat is a goodly land, but ah! it isna mine!" The Scottish settler thinks back with sadness to the home he left behind -- but awakes in Canada, "three thousand miles 'frae hame.'"

Notes

Sandy Clandenning settled in Scarborough (near Toronto) in 1840. He set these words to the first half of the tune "Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw." It has also been sung to "The Irish Emigrant's Lament." - RBW

Cross references

• cf. "Spancil Hill" (theme)
• cf. "That Dear Old Land" (theme)
• cf. "The Glenshesk Waterside" (theme)
• cf. "Farewell to Sweet Glenravel" (theme)
• cf. "Och, Och, Eire, O!" (theme)
• cf. "The Call of Home" (theme)
• cf. "A Shamrock from Tiree" (theme)
• cf. "Farewell to the Banks of the Roe" (theme)
• cf. "Banks of the Roe" (theme)
• cf. "The Shamrock Shore (The Maid of Mullaghmore)" (theme)
• cf. "Maguire's Brae" (theme)
• cf. "Sweet Loughgiel" (theme)
• cf. "Juberlane" (theme)
• cf. "Glen O'Lee" (theme)
• cf. "Sweet Glenbush" (theme)
• cf. "The Hills of Donegal" (theme)
• cf. "O, Derry, Derry, Dearie Me" (theme)
• cf. "Cloughwater/The Shamrock Shore" (theme)
• cf. "The Little Old Mud Cabin on the Hill" (theme)
• cf. "Norah McShane" (theme)
• cf. "Bonnie Lyndale" (theme)

References

1. Fowke/Mills/Blume, pp. 94-95, "A Scarborough Settler's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
2. Fowke/MacMillan 29, "The Scarborough Settler's Lament" (1 text, 1 tune)
3. DT, SCARSET*
4. Roud #4521
5. BI, FMB094