OUR SHIP IS READY (TO BEAR AWAY)

Created on 27/01/2023
Latest update on 25/03/2024

Artist: Robert Cinnamond
Author: traditional
Label: Caedmon
Year: 1955

BBC recording released in '61 on lp Sailormen and Servingmaids - The Folk Songs Of Britain Vol VI. Roud #2995. Also as Emigrant's Farewell.

Covers:

1955:

Sarah Makem [as Farewell My Love, Remember Me, relesed on her anthology As I Roved Out in 2011; her version from '67 for Bill Leader as Farewell My Love, Remember Me (Our Ship Is Ready) came out in '68 on Topic album The Ulster Ballad Singer]

1957:

Margaret Barry

1962:

Ian Campbell Folk Group

1976:

De Danann [as The Emigrant's Farewell with Andy Irvine]

2013:

Cara Dillon [idem]

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