Back Home in Derry-Galway Bay folk Group

[ti:Back Home In Derry] [ar:Galway City Ramblers] [al:All Time Irish Favourites] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Back Home in Derry - Galway Bay folk Group [00:17.07]In 1803 we sailed out to sea [00:20.34] [00:21.15]Out from the sweet town of Derry [00:23.40] [00:24.50]For Australia bound if we didn't all drown [00:28.49]And the marks of our feckles we carried [00:31.09] [00:32.21]In the rusty iron chains we cried for our wanes [00:36.07]Our good women we left there in sorrow [00:38.70] [00:39.82]As the main sails unfurled our curses we hurled [00:43.06] [00:43.59]At the english and the thoughts of tomorrow [00:46.28] [00:49.51]At the mouth of the foyle bid farwell to the soil [00:52.53] [00:53.16]As down below decks we were lying [00:55.76] [00:56.92]O'docherty's scream woke him out of a dream [01:00.04] [01:00.85]By a vision of bold robert dying [01:03.35] [01:04.71]The sun burned cruel and we dished out the gruel [01:08.43]Dan o'connor was down with the fever [01:11.11] [01:12.22]Sixty rebels today bound for botany bay [01:15.44] [01:16.00]How many would reach there this evening [01:19.58] [01:22.21]Oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry [01:27.94] [01:29.42]Oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry [01:35.73] [01:38.97]I cursed them to hell as our bow fought the swell [01:42.18] [01:42.74]Our ship danced like a moth in the firelight [01:45.38] [01:46.39]Wild horses rode high as the devil passed by [01:50.24]Taking souls into hades by twilight [01:52.86] [01:54.17]Five weeks out to sea we were now 43 [01:57.85]We buried our comrades each morning [02:00.64] [02:01.60]And in our own slime we were lost in the time [02:05.59]Endless night without dawning [02:08.82] [02:11.49]Oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry [02:17.51] [02:18.93]Oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry [02:24.99] [02:28.67]Van diemens land is a hell for a man [02:31.61] [02:32.43]To end out his whole life in slavery [02:35.23] [02:36.06]Where the climate is raw and the gun makes the law [02:39.70]Neither wind nor rain care for bravery [02:42.47] [02:43.72]Twenty years have gone by and I've ended my bond [02:46.85] [02:47.42]My comrades' ghosts walk behind me [02:50.06] [02:51.46]A rebel I came and I'm still the same [02:54.57] [02:55.15]On a cold winters night you will finds me [02:58.70] [03:01.15]Oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry [03:07.20] [03:08.43]Oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry [03:14.63] [03:16.01]Oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry [03:22.43] [03:23.81]Oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry