The famine song
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1. In the year of forty-seven I saw an end to what had been,
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saw
my neighbours, friends and loved ones
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fade
before me like a dream.
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On this ship I cross the
ocean, sailing on the raging foam,
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to
the land of my tomorrows, far from my native home.
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2. Now the land is cold and blighted, now the crop has failed again,
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there’s
no food upon the table, fear lives in the hearts of men.
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3. There’s a cloud upon the mountain, and the rain is falling free,
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there’s
a shadow in the valley where my cabin used to be.
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4. All my comrades they are fallen by the roadside they have
died,
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in
the fields and in the hedgerows their hungry bones lie side by side.
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(Johnny McEvoy)