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Artist: Cathie Ryan
Canonical path: /cathie-ryan/erin-s-lovely-home
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Erin's Lovely Home
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Erin's Lovely Home
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My father, he being a farmer reared to industry
He had four sons, two men who'd grown, and lovely daughters three
Our land's too small to serve us all so some of us must roam
Our friends may mourn for we'll never return to Erin's lovely home
My father, he sold the second cow and he borrowed twenty pounds
It was in the pleasant month of May we sailed from Belfast town
With thousands more we left our shore in safety to roam
Our friends may mourn for we'll never return to Erin's lovely home
We hadn't been long sailing when fever seized our crew
Falling like the autumn leaves and overboard were threw
The ocean waves, they rolled o'er our graves, our bed the ocean foam
Our friends may mourn for we'll never return to Erin's lovely home
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Cathie Ryan performs "Erin's Lovely Home", and this lyric page sits inside the Cathie Ryan catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to A Mháithrín, A' Leigfeá 'Un Aonaigh Mé? and Cailín Deas Crúite Na Mbó with a short reason for opening each page next.
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