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You brave Irish heroes where e'er you may be
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I pray, stand a moment and listen to me
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Your sons and fair daughters are all going away
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And thousands are sailing to Americay
[Verse 2]
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So, good luck to those people and safe may they land
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They are leaving their country for a far distant strand
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They're leaving old Ireland, no longer can stay
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And thousands are sailing to Americay
[Verse 3]
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Now the night before leaving, they are bidding goodbye
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And it's early next morning, their hearts give a sigh
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They turn, kiss their mothers and then they will say
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"Farewell, dear old father, we must now go away"
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 4]
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Oh, I pity the mother who rears up the child
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And likewise the father who labours and toils
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To try to support them, he will work night and day
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And when they are reared up, they will go away
[Verse 5]
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So, good luck to those people and safe may they land
G# C# G# Cm
They are leaving their country for a far distant strand
G# D# G# D#
They're leaving old Ireland, no longer can stay
Fm D# G# C#
And thousands are sailing to Americay
[Outro]
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