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Lord Franklin
Traditional
Also called "Lady Franklin's Lament"
Recorded live at Stone Soup Coffeehouse, April 8, 2000.

Sir John Franklin set out to find the Northwest Passage in 1845 and he and his crew met with disaster. Lady Franklin sent out five search crews after the British Admiralty gave up. Skeletons were found in 1859.

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'Twas 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 a hundred seamen he sailed away
To the frozen ocean in the month of May
To seek that passage around the pole
Where we poor seamen do sometimes go

Through cruel hardships his men they strove
Their ship on mountains of ice was drove
Where the eskimo in a skin canoe
Was the only one who ever came through

In Baffin's Bay where the whalefish blow
The fate of Franklin no one may know
The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell
Lord Franklin with his sailors do dwell

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And now my burden it gives me pain
For my long lost Franklin I'd cross the main
Ten thousand pounds would I freely give
To say on earth that my Franklin do live

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from And Then I'm Going Home 2001, released May 9, 2001
Aubrey Atwater: vocals, guitar
Elwood Donnelly: vocals, harmonica

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Atwater-Donnelly Warren, Rhode Island

Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly, present delightful programs of traditional American and Celtic folk songs, a capella pieces, old-time gospel songs, dance tunes, and original works, blending gorgeous harmonies with guitar, Appalachian mountain dulcimer, mandolin, tin whistle, harmonica, banjo, bones, spoons, limberjacks, and Appalachian clog dancing and French Canadian footwork. ... more

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