On Friday, 13 September 2002 14:40:38 UTC+1, Iside  wrote:   
   > Can anyone help me trace a song I remember from my child hood?   
   > the Chorus went something like this...   
   >    
   > #From Port Mahone I'll soon be gone   
   > Laughing or weeping, the world will go on#   
   >    
   > Know it isnt much to go on, but I would be very grateful if anyone can   
   > make a suggestion.  I dont know who sang it or where the song was from   
   > originally.  I was very young!  Just remember it being played on "Folk   
   > on Friday" on our local radio station.   
   >    
   > Issy   
   >    
   > iside@thefacesofsarah.co.uk   
      
   Folk song written by Sydney Carter.  I first heard it performed by Julie   
   Felix.  It is a very powerful, fictionalised love story that plays out,   
   supposedly, on the eve of the Battle of the Nile.  The "tall ship from   
   England" may be Nelson's flagship    
   Vanguard.  The young girl of the song falls in love with a sailor from said   
   ship but he knows that he is soon to go into battle so is reluctant to return   
   the girl's love.  The ship sails off to battle and the fate of the sailor is   
   never known.  In the    
   last verse the girl, now a mature woman who married a good man, lays awake in   
   bed at night and says:  .....and I listen to the sound of the wind and the   
   sound of the sea and remember the sailor who whispered to me, 'From Port Mahon   
   I'll soon be gone.     
   Laughing or weeping, the world will go on'"  I think the genius of the song   
   comes from the fact that it's about two ordinary people caught up in the   
   vagueries of war, niether the battle nor the ship are named and even after   
   years of happy marriage the    
   girl still wonders what happened to her true love.   
      
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