Erin's Seed
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Erin's seed left their homes in Ireland's hills and dale
Driven by the famine for America they sailed
A land of opportunity far from England's stain
Far from history's sorrow and nature's haunted rain
They started up new lives and worked and raised their families
They thought they'd never see again war and tyranny
Most settled in the Yankee North but some went to the South
They thought they'd never see again hunger's gaping mouth
Now Erin's seed lay scattered on America's deep soil
Growing up and onward to honest work and toil
Growing up and onward to heaven's brightest rays
Trusting in the wisdom of God's omniscient ways
Then in the spring of '61 a fragile peace was shattered
The North and South could not agree and war was all that mattered
Erin's seed, those Celtic sons, heard the war birds cry
And on each respective side Irish boys would die
Upon the heights of Fredericksburg two armies spent their hate
There the men of Ireland would meet the strangest fate
For across that deadly field they stood against each other
And they sang songs of Ireland and drew aim on their brothers
Now Erin's seed is seeped into Virginia's red earth
No longer would it bloom and grow and foster a rebirth
Our Civil War did finish what their famine had begun
For in the end they crossed themselves and went to meet the sun
For in the end they crossed themselves and went to meet the sun