Erin's Lovely Home-Donal Lunny

[ti:Erin's Lovely Home] [ar:Donal Lunny] [al:The Hungry Voice (The Song Legacy Of Ireland's Great Hunger] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Erin's Lovely Home - Donal Lunny [00:09.46]Come all you sons of paddy's [00:13.27]Land and listen unto me [00:17.34] [00:18.75]'Til I relate of the hardships [00:22.52]Great a crossing over the sea [00:26.54] [00:27.97]For the want of bread ten thousands [00:31.70]Fled so far across the foam [00:36.12] [00:37.44]And left the land where they were [00:41.31]Born called erin's lovely home [00:45.84] [00:49.43]Black forty seven I'll never forget [00:53.97]When the fever it stalked the land [00:57.43] [00:58.79]And the famine without mercy it [01:03.52]Stretched forth it's dreadful hand [01:06.96] [01:08.22]There's many's the child in cold [01:11.67]Death lay their parents they did mourn [01:16.38] [01:17.54]While the landlord's agents pulled [01:20.80]Down our roofs in erin's lovely home [01:25.91] [01:29.45]My father was a farming [01:33.50]Man reared to industry [01:37.60] [01:38.95]He had two sons they were men [01:42.82]Strong and lovely daughters three [01:46.97] [01:48.28]Our farm was too small to feed [01:51.90]Us all so some of us had to roam [01:56.48] [01:57.61]With sisters two I bid adieu [02:02.62]To erin's lovely home [02:06.01] [02:09.49]My father sold the second cow [02:14.24]He borrowed twenty pounds [02:17.60] [02:18.89]And in the merry month of may [02:23.60]We sailed from sligo town [02:27.24] [02:28.17]There were thousands more left [02:30.63]Upon the shore all anxious for to roam [02:36.39] [02:37.56]And leave the land where they [02:41.09]Were born called erin's lovely home [02:46.27] [02:49.54]We were scarcely seven days at [02:53.33]Sea when the fever it plagued our crew [02:57.91] [02:58.80]They were falling like the autumn [03:02.80]Leaves bidding friends and life adieu [03:07.25] [03:08.08]Now the raging waves sweep o'er [03:12.38]Their graves amidst the ocean foam [03:16.46] [03:17.47]Their friends may mourn but they'll [03:20.30]Never return to erin's lovely home [03:26.20] [03:29.80]My loving sisters they both took [03:34.25]I'll their lives they were taken away [03:37.92] [03:39.12]And oh it grieves my heart full [03:42.78]Sore to cast them in the sea [03:47.68] [03:48.31]Down in the deep now they do sleep [03:52.78]They never more will roam [03:56.79] [03:57.67]In heaven I'll meet with my sisters [04:01.40]Sweet from erin's lovely home [04:05.96] [04:09.52]I'm in the land of liberty [04:14.36]Where plenty it does abound [04:17.81] [04:18.89]Where the laboring man gets full [04:22.46]Reward for the tilling of his ground [04:27.28] [04:28.32]There's naught I can see that can [04:30.91]Comfort me as an exile I must roam [04:36.57] [04:37.63]And end my days far far away [04:42.69]From erin's lovely home