Erin's Lovely Home-Cathie Ryan

[ti:Erin's Lovely Home] [ar:Cathie Ryan] [al:The Music Of What Happens] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Erin's Lovely Home - Cathie Ryan [00:04.42]My father, he being a farmer reared to industry [00:19.91] [00:20.78]He had four sons, two men who’d grown, and lovely daughters three [00:35.04] [00:36.10]Our land’s too small to serve us all so some of us must roam [00:50.51] [00:51.27]Our friends may mourn for we’ll never return to Erin’s lovely home [01:09.14] [01:11.88]My father, he sold the second cow and he borrowed twenty pounds [01:27.26]It was in the pleasant month of May we sailed from Belfast town [01:41.06] [01:41.81]With thousands more we left our shore in safety to roam [01:56.38]Our friends may mourn for we’ll never return to Erin’s lovely home [02:13.56] [02:16.69]We hadn’t been long sailing when fever seized our crew [02:32.08]Falling like the autumn leaves and overboard were threw [02:44.70] [02:45.76]The ocean waves, they rolled o’er our graves, our bed the ocean foam [02:59.67] [03:01.36]Our friends may mourn for we’ll never return to Erin’s lovely home