Erin's Lovely Home

Come all you sons of Paddy's land and listen onto me

Till I relate of the hardships great a crossing over the sea

For the want of bread ten thousands fled so far across the foam

And left the land where they were born called Erin's lovely home

Black forty seven I'll never forget when the fever it stalked the land

And the famine without mercy it stretched forth it's dreadful hand

There's many the child in cold death lay their parents they did mourn

While the landlord's agents pulled down our roofs in Erin's lovely home

My father was a farming man reared to industry

He had two sons they were men strong and lovely daughters three

Our farm was too small to feed us all so some of us had to roam

With sisters two I bid adieu to Erin's lovely home

My father sold the second cow and he borrowed twenty pounds

And in the merry month of May we sailed from Sligo town

There were thousands more left upon the shore all anxious for to roam

And leave the land where they were born called Erin's lovely home

We were scarcely seven days at sea when the fever it plagued our crew

They were falling like the autumn leaves bidding friends and life adieu

Now the raging waves sweep o'er their graves amidst the ocean foam

Our friends may mourn for we'll never return to Erin's lovely home

My loving sisters they both took I'll and their lives they were taken away

And oh it grieved my heart full sore for to cast them in the sea

Down in the deep now they do sleep they never more will roam

But in heaven I'll meet with my sisters sweet from Erin's lovely home

Now I'm in the land of liberty where plenty it does abound

Where the labouring man gets full reward for the tilling of his ground

There's naught I can see that can comfort me as an exile I must roam

And end my days far far away from Erin's lovely home