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It was in the hungry forties when old Ireland lay in gloom.
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Thousands sailed from Galway Bay to find a brighter home.
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Among them were three comrades who were brave and strong and bold,
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And they came from Dinish Island off the Lettermullan shore.
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The streets of Philadelphia they had heard were paved with gold,
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But very soon they realized it melted with the snow.
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The pangs of hunger know no bounds, they make the young look old,
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So they went to California a-hunting for the gold.
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They staked a claim beside the hill known as the Mount Tahoe
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And started digging into it some fortunes for to hoard.
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It was a promise to their parents on the day they left their home
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They´d bring it back to Dinish off the Lettermullan shore.
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McDonagh went to town one day to rustle up some stores.
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He was killed by three banditos who robbed him of his hope.
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Folan and Jack Larkin they waited at their home,
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And they buried him beside his claim on the side of Mount Tahoe.
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And when the mound was patted down and the three Hail Marys said,
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They placed a little wooden cross as a marker on his head.
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Jack Larkin faced into the east and he swore a mighty oath
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There was blood for blood, he´d have revenge or never show his face at home.
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That very day Jack went to town with his pistol in his belt,
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And he went into the tavern where they killed his cousin Pat.
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He called out the banditos, and when the fight was o´er,
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The three of them were lying dead upon the barroom floor.
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Jack took a bullet in his back and for three long weeks he laid,
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Till one night he says to Folan: "Sure I´ll never see the day,
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But tell my folk in Dinish if you ever make it back
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Tell ´em I got the bastards that killed my cousin Pat."
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He was buried with his cousin in the grave upon the hill,
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With a marker at his head and feet and the three Hail Marys said.
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Before the mound was patted down Jack Larkin´s mighty soul
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Had flown back home to Dinish off the Lettermullan shore.
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