The Flight of the Earls-Wolfe Tones

[ti:The Flight of the Earls] [ar:Wolfe Tones] [al:Millennium Celebration Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Flight of the Earls - Wolfe Tones [00:15.86]I can hear the bells of Dublin [00:18.66] [00:19.70]In this lonely waiting room [00:22.56] [00:23.44]And the paperboys are singin' [00:27.17]In the rain [00:29.03] [00:30.91]Not too long before they take us [00:33.78] [00:34.94]To the airport and the noise [00:38.04] [00:38.99]To get on board [00:40.94]A transatlantic plane [00:44.13] [00:46.39]We've got nothin' left to stay for [00:49.43] [00:50.17]We had no more left to say [00:53.16] [00:53.95]And there isn't any work [00:56.44] [00:57.04]For us to do [00:59.80] [01:01.36]So fare well you boys and girls [01:05.09]Another bloody [01:06.64]Flight of earls [01:08.97]Our best asset [01:10.04] [01:11.34]Is our best export too [01:14.54] [01:16.80]It's not murder fear or famine [01:20.00] [01:20.63]That makes us leave this time [01:24.15]We're not going to join [01:26.57]McAlpine's Fusiliers [01:30.16] [01:31.85]We've got brains [01:33.19]And we've got visions [01:35.71]We've got education too [01:39.46]But we just can't throw away [01:42.62]These precious years [01:44.87] [01:47.22]So we walk the streets of London [01:50.25] [01:51.04]And the streets of Baltimore [01:54.26] [01:54.88]And we meet at night [01:57.00]In several Boston bars [02:00.63] [02:02.35]We're the leaders of the future [02:05.39] [02:06.35]But we're far away from home [02:10.03]And we dream of you [02:12.17]Beneath the Irish stars [02:15.88] [02:33.04]As we look on Ellis Island [02:36.07] [02:36.83]And the lady in the bay [02:39.79] [02:40.59]And Manhattan turns to face [02:43.71]Another Sunday [02:46.71] [02:48.02]We just wonder what you're doing [02:51.09] [02:52.03]But to bring us all back home [02:54.95] [02:56.04]As we look forward to another Monday [03:01.40] [03:03.30]Because it's not the work [03:05.43]That scares us [03:06.33] [03:07.22]We don't mind an honest job [03:09.86] [03:10.82]And we know things will get better [03:14.63]Once again [03:16.50] [03:18.38]So a thousand times adieu [03:21.71] [03:22.27]We've got bono and U2 [03:26.11]All we're missin' [03:27.14] [03:27.96]Is the Guinness [03:29.05] [03:29.59]And the rain [03:31.93] [03:33.70]So switch off [03:34.88]Your new computers [03:36.67] [03:37.78]'Cause the writing's on the wall [03:40.42] [03:41.76]We're leaving as our fathers [03:44.42] [03:44.98]Did before [03:46.97] [03:48.90]Take a look [03:50.14]At Dublin airport [03:52.03] [03:52.98]Or the boat that leaves North Wall [03:55.92] [03:56.52]There'll be no youth [03:58.40]Unemployment [04:00.08]Any more [04:01.74] [04:04.17]Because we're over here in Queensland [04:07.54] [04:08.13]And in parts of New South Wales [04:11.33] [04:12.20]We're on the seas and airways [04:15.52]And the trains [04:17.59] [04:19.43]And if we see better days [04:22.55] [04:23.18]Those big airplanes go both ways [04:27.02]And we'll all be comin' home [04:30.06]To you again