{"id":1256,"date":"2022-12-23T05:05:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2022-12-23T05:05:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T13:05:50","slug":"izzys-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2022\/12\/izzys-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Izzy&#8217;s Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Written around 1977 after hearing stories from Isabel Bridget Montague, mother of Eileen Montague Brown, my mother\u2019s best friend. Izzy left for Canada with her sister Anne in 1911. She later returned to Ireland to visit, but her father had been lost at sea. She never saw him again.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, someone should go and tell Montague<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That his daughter\u2019s at the agent\u2019s door;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that means that she\u2019s goin\u2019 to America,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And she won\u2019t see Ireland no more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, someone has gone to tell Montague as he\u2019s loadin\u2019 up boats by the sea;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And he\u2019s wearily put his big box down, and said, \u201cI wish this her coffin would be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CHORUS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd did you think of your family and all the mouths to feed?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOh, yes, I\u2019ve been thinkin\u2019 of my family, but this time, Papa,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m thinkin\u2019 of me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, there\u2019s nothin\u2019 for me in this whole county<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But piecework and the old linen mill;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So me and my sister, well, we\u2019re sailin\u2019 away,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shed a tear for me, for I never will.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So she and her sister went to Winnepeg, got a job in the phone company;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And she was workin\u2019 on the night the Titanic went down,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said, \u201cThat board lit up like a Christmas tree.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CHORUS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then she married and she traveled on to O-hi-o, and later moved on out to the West;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where she talked of decisions that you\u2019ve got to make,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the leaving behind of regrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CHORUS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written around 1977 after hearing stories from Isabel Bridget Montague, mother of Eileen Montague Brown, my mother\u2019s best friend. Izzy left for Canada with her sister Anne in 1911. She later returned to Ireland to visit, but her father had been lost at sea. She never saw him again. Well, someone should go and tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-writing","category-united-kingdom-and-ireland-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}