Jack Carey - The Emigrants Story lyrics

Farewell my lovely Ireland

Farewell my love so fair

She is sweeter than the fiddler's strings

And the songs the blackbird sings

For I must leave my fair haired girl

How I'll miss her so

If I could find the work I'd stay

Across the ocean I must go

Farewell my lovely Ireland

Farewell my land so fair

To the valleys hills and soft rain

Shades of green and golden grain

Crashing waves on your brave shores

My heart is always yours

With dampening eyes I leave you now

Across the ocean I must go


Oh farewell, farewell, I must stray

We'll meet again, come what may

Oh farewell, farewell, I must stray

It's time to be on my way


Farewell my lovely Ireland

Farewell my nation fair

Unchanged by wars and present woes

That hope, that courage shows

Those men and women heroes bold

Singing songs of days of old

Here's to you and better days

Across the ocean I must go


Oh farewell, farewell, I must stray

We'll meet again, come what may

Oh farewell, farewell, I must stray

It's time to be on my way


Farewell my lovely Ireland

Farewell to a life so fair

Man's greed has stole my childhood land

Live's torn by the traitor's hand

We'll meet again like parted streams

On our isle, our isle of dreams

We'll dance again like days of yore

My story will be told

We'll dance again like days of yore

My story will be told






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