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1. An Old Song - Erin's Lovely Home (continued)

   

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   Called Erin’s lovely home.

   IV

   We were scarcely seven days sailing
   When a fever plagued our crew,
   They were falling like autumn leaves,
   Bidding friends and life adieu;
   We raised a prayer to Heaven then
   That ne’er again we’d roam
   And leave the land where we were reared
   Called Erin’s lovely home.

   V

   At last my sister became ill,
   Her life was taken away,
   It grieved me very much to see
   Her thrown into the sea;
   She’s now asleep in the ocean deep
   Where foaming billows roar,
   Her friends they’ll mourn, but she’ll ne’er return
   To Erin’s lovely home.

   VI

   We are now in the Land of Liberty,
   And plenty here does flow,
   A tradesman here will have wages high
   No matter where he goes;
   There is nothing left to comfort me,

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. seánra
      1. filíocht
         1. filíocht na ndaoine (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maggie Kelly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Meencrumlin, Co. Dhún na nGall

   Informant

   Tommy Ward

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Address

   Meencrumlin, Co. Dhún na nGall