We Sold Our Homesteads-Falconer

[ti:We Sold Our Homesteads] [ar:Falconer] [al:Chapters From A Vale Forlorn] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]We Sold Our Homesteads - Falconer [00:12.60]We sold our homesteads and started on our way [00:18.16]Just like the birds will fly when autumn is here to stay [00:24.02]One day they will return [00:26.77]Come spring again that's when [00:30.26]But we will never see our native country again [00:36.25]At first we traveled through the English countryside [00:41.68] [00:42.24]On tracks and on wagons [00:45.36]As quickly as birds would fly [00:47.98]It was a lovely sight to see the land at last [00:53.66] [00:54.34]But all the glorious sights kept flashing by too fast [01:00.40]The glorious sights kept flashing by too fast [01:03.89] [01:16.75]And later when we came to Liverpudlian bay [01:22.80]The tears of regret finally started to have their say [01:28.48]The hearts then started burning in each and everyone [01:34.47]We only talked of Sweden that used to be our home [01:40.17] [01:40.86]We all were packed together in one unhealthy cave [01:46.77]It was as if we'd stepped into an open grave [01:51.95] [01:52.57]The food that we had brought from blessed Swedish land [01:58.62]Was suddenly forbidden and taken from our hand [02:04.55]It was forbidden and taken from our hand [02:09.20] [02:57.38]And when we had been sailing for just a week or two [03:03.17]A horrid kind of darkness was clouding our view [03:09.23]We couldn't see each other and hardly breathe or walk [03:15.03]It was a gruesome anguish for all people aboard [03:20.58] [03:21.09]The air was filled with hunger and drenched in wretched cries [03:27.14]The howling and the noises would pierce right through the skies [03:33.07]And death became the ruler that forced us to our knees [03:38.93]The dead were buried in the horrid fathom of the seas [03:45.04]They were buried in the fathom of the seas