Flight of Earls-Paddy Reilly/Davey Arthur

[ti:Flight of Earls] [ar:Paddy Reilly/Davey Arthur] [al:Songs of Irish Emigration] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Flight of Earls - Paddy Reilly/Davey Arthur [00:08.77]I can hear the bells of Dublin [00:12.25] [00:13.05]In this lonely waiting room [00:16.78] [00:17.44]And the paperboys are singing in the rain [00:22.94] [00:25.28]Not too long before they take us [00:28.76] [00:29.47]To the airport and the noise [00:33.29] [00:34.12]To get on board a transatlantic plane [00:40.32] [00:41.48]We've got nothing left to stay for [00:45.57] [00:46.17]We had no more left to say [00:49.86] [00:50.44]And there isn't any work for us to do [00:56.71] [00:58.23]So farewell ye boys and girls [01:02.11] [01:02.62]Another bloody flight of earls [01:06.40] [01:07.03]Our best asset is our best export too [01:13.12] [01:14.93]It's not murder fear or famine [01:19.23]That makes us leave this time [01:22.78] [01:23.58]We're not going to join [01:25.92]McAlpine's fusileers [01:30.28] [01:31.45]We've got brains and we've got visions [01:35.22] [01:35.78]We've got education too [01:39.44] [01:40.06]But we just can't throw away these precious years [01:45.33] [01:47.84]So we walk the streets of London [01:51.26] [01:52.83]And the streets of Baltimore [01:56.20] [01:56.75]And we meet at night in several Boston bars [02:03.80] [02:04.51]We're the leaders of the future [02:08.19] [02:08.84]But we're far away from home [02:12.74] [02:13.27]And we dream of you beneath the Irish stars [02:19.69] [02:29.45]As we look on Ellis Island and the lady in the bay [02:37.56] [02:38.09]And manhattan turns to face another sunday [02:44.37] [02:45.97]We just wonder what you're doing [02:49.56] [02:50.23]To bring us all back home [02:53.92] [02:54.52]As we look forward to another monday [03:01.21] [03:02.36]Because it's not the work that scares us [03:07.07]We don't mind an honest job [03:10.28] [03:10.92]And we know things will get better [03:14.81]Once again [03:16.41] [03:18.89]So a thousand times adieu [03:22.77] [03:23.41]We've got bono and u2 [03:26.59] [03:27.43]All we're missing is the guinness and the rain [03:34.12] [03:35.69]So switch off your new computers [03:40.01]'Cause the writing's on the wall [03:43.61] [03:44.15]We're leaving [03:45.47] [03:46.15]As our fathers did before [03:50.20] [03:52.31]Take a look at Dublin airport [03:56.16] [03:56.71]Or the boat that leaves north wall [03:59.88] [04:00.60]There'll be no youth unemployment any more [04:05.66] [04:08.92]Because we're over here in Queensland [04:12.33] [04:13.10]And in parts of new south wales [04:16.75] [04:17.43]We're on the seas and airways and the trains [04:23.99] [04:25.78]But if we see better days [04:29.62]Those big airplanes go both ways [04:33.40] [04:33.97]And we'll all be coming back to you again [04:39.94] [04:41.75]Yes we'll all be coming back to you again