Artist: | Christy Moore (English) |
User: | TA52477 |
Duration: | 200 seconds |
Delay: | 15 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Christy Moore - Back home in Derry
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In eighteen-o-three we sailed out to sea
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Out from the sweet town of Derry
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For Australia bound, if we didn't all drown
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The marks of our fetters we carried
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In our rusty iron chains we cried for our weans
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Our good women we left in sorrow
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As the main sails unfurled, our curses we hurled
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On the English and thoughts of tomorrow
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At the mouth of the Foyle, bade farewell to the soil
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As down below decks we were lying
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O'Doherty screamed, woken out of a dream
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By a vision of bold Robert dying
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The sun burnt cruel as we dished out the gruel
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Dan O'Conner was down with a fever
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Sixty rebels today, bound for Botany Bay
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How many will reach their receiver
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Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry
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Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry
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I cursed them to hell as our bow fought the swell
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Our ship danced like a moth in the firelight
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White horses rode high as the devil passed by
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Taking souls to Hades by twilight
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Five weeks out to sea, we were now forty-three
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We buried our comrades each morning
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In our own slime we were lost in the time
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Endless night without dawning
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Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry
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Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry
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Van Diemen's Land is a hell for a man
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To end out his whole life in slavery
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Where the climate is raw and a gun makes the law
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Neither wind nor rain care for bravery
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Twenty years have gone by, I have ended my bond
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My comrades' ghosts walk behind me
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A rebel I came, I'm still the same
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On the cold winds of night you will find me
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Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry
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Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry
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Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry
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Oh oh oh oh oh I wish I was back home in Derry