Karan Casey - Erins Lovely Home

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Come, all ye sons of Paddy's land and listen unto me
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'Til I relate of the hardships great, a-crossing o'er the sea
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For the want of bread, ten thousands fled, so far across the foam
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And left the land where they were born, called Erin's lovely home

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Black forty-seven I'll never forget, when the fever it stalked the land
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And the famine without mercy, it stretched forth its dreadful hand
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There's many's the child in cold death lay, their parents they did mourn
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While landlord's agents pulled down our roofs, in Erin's lovely home

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My father was a farming man, reared to industry
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He had two sons, they were men strong, and lovely daughters three
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Our farm was too small to feed us all, so some of us had to roam
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With sisters two, I bid adieu, to Erin's lovely home

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My father sold the second cow, he borrowed twenty pounds
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And in the merry month of May, we sailed from Sligo town
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There were thousands more left upon the shore, all anxious for to roam
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And leave the land where they were born, called Erin's lovely home

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We were scarcely seven days at sea, when the fever it plagued our crew
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They were falling like the autumn leaves, bidding friends and life adieu
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Now the raging waves sweep o'er their graves amidst the ocean foam
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Their friends may mourn, but they'll never return, to Erin's lovely home

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My loving sisters, they both took ill, their lives they were taken away
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And oh, it grieves my heart full sore, to cast them in the sea
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Down in the deep now they do sleep, they never more will roam
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In heaven I'll meet with my sisters sweet, from Erin's lovely home

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I'm in the land of liberty, where plenty it does abound
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Where the labouring man gets full reward, for the tilling of his ground
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There's naught I can see that can comfort me, as an exile I must roam
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And end my days far, far away, from Erin's lovely home