michael o’domhnaill and kevin burke - lord franklin song 1982 concert kieransirishmusicandsurvivalco

Michael O’Domhnaill and Kevin Burke Recorded Live at the Augusta Music Festival in Elkins, West Virginia 1982 lyrics It was homeward bound one night on the deep Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep I dreamed a dream and I thought it true Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew With one hundred seamen he sailed away To the frozen ocean in the month of May To seek a passage around the pole Where we poor seamen do sometimes go Through cruel hardships they mainly strove Their ship on mountains of ice was drove Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe Was the only one that ever came through In Baffin’s Bay where the whale fish blow The fate of Franklin no man may know The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell Lord Franklin along with his sailors do dwell And now my burden it gives me pain For my long lost Franklin I’d cross the main Ten thousand pounds I would freely give To say on earth that my Franklin do live