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Cold Frosty Morning
Si Kahn
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With bellies pinched and faces pale
They crowd the decks and line the rail
Of ships that stand like scarecrows all along the Dublin quay
They file along the old gangway
That leads to free Americay
The land beyond the golden shore across the raging sea
So farewell to Ireland, we're sailing in the morning
We'll be out with the tide at the dawn's early light
Goodbye my friends, we may never meet again
So may the luck of the Irish go with you tonight
But who could see beyond the shore
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The fate awaiting Ireland's poor?
The factories of Bridgeport, all the smoke and fire of hell
The shanties where the children died
The signs no Irish need apply
Back home they starve your body, here your spirit starves as well
So farewell to Ireland, we're sailing in the morning
We'll be out with the tide at the dawn's early light
Goodbye my friends, we may never meet again
So may the luck of the Irish go with you tonight
Those who came here seeking bread
But found their way to wealth instead
Did they but barter freedom for a thing of greater cost?
And turn their backs against the pride
With which the Irish rebels died
Oh, have you reckoned up the price of freedom gained and lost?
So farewell to Ireland, we're sailing in the morning
We'll be out with the tide at the dawn's early light
Goodbye my friends, we may never meet again
So may the luck of the Irish go with you tonight
The things those rebels treasured most
Are they now only dreams and ghosts?
You raging Irish poets, how we need your wit and rhyme
To beat the drum and sound the horn
To generations yet unborn
'Til Ireland and America find freedom in our time
So farewell to Ireland, we're sailing in the morning
We'll be out with the tide at the dawn's early light
Goodbye my friends, we may never meet again
So may the luck of the Irish go with you tonight
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