I'm delighted Alan found this song and shared the story.
Not long ago, some new discoveries were made that may show the surviving colonists may have gotten some distance inland before they disappeared -- or, as likely, intermarried with or lost their lives at the hands of the indigenous people. I'd hope for the former, but we may never know.
https://www.archaeology.org/news/4654-160718-roanoke-lost-colony-traces
Not long ago, some new discoveries were made that may show the surviving colonists may have gotten some distance inland before they disappeared -- or, as likely, intermarried with or lost their lives at the hands of the indigenous people. I'd hope for the former, but we may never know.
https://www.archaeology.org/news/4654-160718-roanoke-lost-colony-traces
I found a song about the lost Roanoke colony.