The Green Fields Of Canada

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Farewell to the groves of shillelagh and shamrock
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Farewell to the wee girls of Ireland all 'round
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May your hearts be as merry as ever I would wish them
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When far, far away across the ocean I'm bound


[Verse 2]

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Oh, my father is old, and my mother is quite feeble
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To leave their own country, it grieves their heart sore__
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Oh, the tears in great drops, down their cheeks they are rolling
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To think they must die upon some foreign shore


[Verse 3]

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But what matters to me where my bones may be buried
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If in peace and contentment I can spend my life
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Oh, the green fields of Canada, they daily are blooming
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And it's there I'll put an end to my miseries and strife


[Verse 4]

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So pack up your sea-stores and tarry no longer
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Ten dollars a week isn't very bad pay__
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With no taxes or tithes to devour up your wages
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When you're on the green fields of Canada


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[Verse 5]

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The sheep run unshorn, and the land's gone to rushes
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The handyman is gone, and the winders of creels
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Away across the ocean go journeyman tailors
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And fiddlers that play out the old mountain reels


[Verse 6]

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Farewell to the dances in homes now deserted
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When tips struck the lightening in sparks from the floor
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The paving and crigging of hobnails on flagstones
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The tears of the old folk and shouts of encore


[Verse 7]

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For the landlords and bailiffs in vile combination
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Have forced us from hearthstone and homestead away
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May the crowbar brigade all be doomed to damnation
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When we're on the green fields of Canada


[Verse 8]

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And it's now to conclude and to finish my story
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And if e'er friendless Irishmen chance my way__
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With the best in the house, I will treat him and welcome
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At home in the green fields of Canada