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Standard (EADGBE)

 It was 1962, I was two years out of school

 When I got on board a boat that was bound for Liverpool

 The day we sailed away I remember it so well

 Took a look at the North Wall and bid a fond farewell

 It's a hard thing to leave the land of your childhood

 Touched by the rivers and kissed by the sea

 The places you played with your childhood companions

 To leave dear old Ireland and Mother Mo Chro?

 Though I'm going far away and I may never return here

 There's one thing I always will keep within me

Deep in my heart a furious devotion

 The love of old Ireland and Mother Mo Chroi

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 Though I'm going away and I may never return here

 There is always one thing that I will keep within me

Deep in my heart a furious devotion

 The love of old Ireland and Mother Mo Chroi

 On the top of the Pentonville Road I saw the sun setting

 The town laid out before me looked beautiful to me

Away from all the sighing, the suffering and the dying

 I dreamed of the future, the young and the free

 But the years they go by quickly, now I know I can't remain here

 Where each day brings me closer to that final misery

 My kids will never scrape shit round here, and I won't die crying in a pint of beer

 I'm going back to Ireland and Mother Mo Chro?

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