Farewell to the groves of shillelagh and shamrock<\/p>\n
Farewell to the girls of old Ireland all round<\/p>\n
May their hearts be as merry as ever I would wish them<\/p>\n
When far away across the ocean I’m bound.<\/p>\n
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Oh, my father is old and my mother quite feeble;<\/p>\n
To leave their own country it grieves their heart sore,<\/p>\n
Oh the tears in great drops down their cheeks they are rolling<\/p>\n
To think they must die upon some foreign shore.<\/p>\n
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But what matter to me where my bones they be buried<\/p>\n
If in peace and contentment I can spend my life<\/p>\n
Oh the green fields of Canada they daily are blooming<\/p>\n
It’s there I’ll put an end to my miseries and strife.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Then it’s pack up your sea stores and tarry no longer<\/p>\n
Ten dollars a week isn’t very bad pay<\/p>\n
With no taxes or tithes to devour up your wages<\/p>\n
When you’re on the green fields of Amerikay.<\/p>\n
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The sheep run unsheared and the land’s gone to rushes<\/p>\n
The handyman’s gone and the winders of creels,<\/p>\n
Away across the ocean, good journeyman tailors<\/p>\n
And fiddlers that play out the old mountain reels<\/p>\n
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Ah but I \u2018mind the time when old Ireland was flourishing,<\/p>\n
When lots of her tradesmen could work for good pay<\/p>\n
But since our manufacturies have crossed the Atlantic<\/p>\n
It’s now we must follow to Amerikay.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Farewell to the dances in homes now deserted<\/p>\n
When tips struck the lightning in planks from the floor<\/p>\n
The paving and crigging of hobnails on flagstones<\/p>\n
The tears of the old folk and shouts of encore.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
For the landlords and bailiffs in vile combination<\/p>\n
Have forced us from hearthstone and homestead away<\/p>\n
May the crowbar brigade all be doomed to damnation<\/p>\n
When we\u2019re on the green fields of Amerikay.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The timber grows thick on the slopes of Columbia<\/p>\n
With Douglas in grandeur two hundred feet tall<\/p>\n
The salmon and sturgeon dam streamlet and river<\/p>\n
and the high Rocky Mountains look down over all.<\/p>\n
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Over prairie and plain sure the wheat waves all golden<\/p>\n
The maple gives sugar to sweeten your tay<\/p>\n
You won\u2019t want for corn cob way out in Saskatchewan<\/p>\n
When you\u2019re on the green fields of Amerikay.<\/p>\n
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And if you grow weary of pleasure and plenty<\/p>\n
Of fruit from the orchard and fish from the foam<\/p>\n
There\u2019s health and good hunting way back in the forests<\/p>\n
Where herds of great elk and wild buffalo roam.<\/p>\n
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And it’s now to conclude and to finish my ditty<\/p>\n
If ever friendless Irishman chances my way<\/p>\n
With the best in the house I will treat him, and welcome,<\/p>\n
At home on the green fields of Amerikay.<\/p>\n
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