How Percy French turned one overheard sigh into "The Emigrant's Letter"
Percy French overheard a homesick Donegal man on a liner bound for Canada in 1910, and the stray remark became "The Emigrant's Letter," the song the world knows as "Cutting the Corn in Creeslough."
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