| Summary: | Sailor meets up with an old man in India who tells him his tale. He had been forced to fight for an English Lord in '68; this same lord later killed his wife and child. Swearing to have his revenge, the old man shipped on board the same ship as the lord. He killed him in India but was unable to return to Ireland. Sailor offers to take him home on his ship. Dibblee, Randall and Dorothy, "Folksongs From P.E.I." p. 90-91 (The Irish Emigrant); Ives, E.D., "Folklore From Maine", p. 80-84; Beck, Horace, "Folklore of Maine", pp. 93-95.
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