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A Stór Mo Chroí
The Chieftains with Bonnie Raitt
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Oh, Stór MacRí, when you're far away
From the home that you'll soon be leaving
It's many a time by night and by day
That your heart will be sorely grieving
For the strangers' land may be bright and fair
And rich in its treasures golden
You'll pine, I know, for the long ago
And the love that is never olden
Oh, Stór MacRí, in the strangers' land
There is plenty of wealth and women
While gems adorn the great and grand
There are faces with harder pain
The road is dreary and hard to tread
And the lights of their cities blind you
Won't you turn, a stór, to Erin's shore
And the love that you left behind you?
Oh, Stór MacRí, when the evening sun
Over mountain and meadow is falling
Won't you turn away from the throng and rest
And maybe you'll hear me calling
For the sound of a voice that is surely mine
For somebody's speedy returning
Our own, my own, won't you come back soon
To the one that will always love you?