Hometown On the Foyle-Eileen King/The Country Flavour

[ti:Hometown On the Foyle] [ar:Eileen King/The Country Flavour] [al:Country Gifts] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hometown On the Foyle - Eileen King/The Country Flavour [00:09.25]As the train pulls out today from derry city [00:14.82] [00:17.36]A thousand memories linger in my mind [00:22.60] [00:25.35]Why do I need to go it's such a pity [00:30.75] [00:33.23]And all the dear old friends I leave behind [00:38.74] [00:40.90]As I gaze beyond the harbor I'm recalling [00:47.01] [00:49.27]Familiar names like doherty and coyle [00:54.99] [00:57.16]Through misty eyes [00:59.14]I feel the teardrops falling [01:03.18] [01:05.20]Goodbye to my old hometown on the foyle [01:10.67] [01:21.20]The spire of saint eugene's seems to vanish [01:26.57] [01:28.85]In the distance over the city over so high [01:34.67] [01:37.17]My childhood thought [01:39.10]I never wanted to vanish [01:42.95] [01:45.04]When I wondered if they reached to the sky [01:50.45] [01:52.88]Many thousand miles [01:55.19]I've travelled on my journey [01:58.80] [02:00.96]To a new home on the wild austrailian soil [02:06.85] [02:09.38]But never can I hope to lose the yearning [02:14.88] [02:17.10]To return to my old hometown on the foyle [02:22.82] [02:25.10]To return to my old hometown on the foyle