Flight Of The Earls-Paddy Reilly

[ti:Flight Of The Earls] [ar:Paddy Reilly] [al:The Paddy Reilly Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Flight Of The Earls - Paddy Reilly [00:08.24]I can hear the bells of dublin [00:12.21] [00:12.82]In this lonely waiting room [00:17.08]And the paperboys are singing in the rain [00:22.58] [00:25.05]Not too long before they take us [00:28.52] [00:29.27]To the airport and the noise [00:33.69]To get on board a transatlantic plane [00:39.22] [00:41.57]We've got nothing left to stay for [00:45.92]We had no more left to say [00:50.06]And there isn't any work for us to do [00:55.83] [00:57.86]So farewell ye boys and girls [01:01.55] [01:02.36]Another bloody flight of earls [01:06.62]Our best asset is our best export too [01:12.93] [01:14.60]It's not murder fear or famine [01:18.22] [01:19.18]That makes us leave this time [01:23.03]We're not going to join [01:25.50]Mc Alpine's fusileers [01:29.72] [01:31.27]We've got brains and we've got visions [01:34.89] [01:35.58]We've got education too [01:39.63]But we just can't throw away these precious years [01:45.95] [01:47.48]So we walk the streets of London [01:52.21]And the streets of baltimore [01:56.29]And we meet at night in several boston bars [02:03.34] [02:04.36]We're the leaders of the future [02:08.60]But we're far away from home [02:12.81]And we dream of you beneath the irish stars [02:18.83] [02:29.10]As we look on Ellis island and the lady in the bay [02:37.48]And manhattan turns to face another Sunday [02:44.11] [02:45.70]We just wonder what you're doing to bring us all back home [02:53.88] [02:54.43]As we look forward to another Monday [03:00.94] [03:02.25]Because it's not the work that scares us [03:06.05] [03:06.63]We don't mind an honest job [03:09.89] [03:10.71]And we know things will get better [03:14.54]Once again [03:16.65] [03:18.64]So a thousand times adieu [03:22.80]We've got bono and U 2 [03:26.72] [03:27.24]All we're missing is the guinness and the rain [03:33.22] [03:35.48]So switch off your new computers [03:39.70]'Cause the writing's on the wall [03:44.09]We're leaving as our fathers did before [03:49.75] [03:52.13]Take a look at dublin airport or the boat [03:57.26]That leaves north wall [04:00.40]There'll be no youth unemployment any more [04:06.57] [04:08.71]Because we're over here in Queensland [04:12.81]And in parts of new south wales [04:16.92]We're on the seas and airways and the trains [04:23.88] [04:25.11]But if we see better days [04:29.40]Those big airplanes go both ways [04:33.60]And we'll all be coming back to you again [04:39.24] [04:41.09]Yes we'll all be coming back to you again