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We came across the ocean for the price on the passage |
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Came across the ocean for one English pound |
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We slept in the hay bed with the sheep and the shit, yeah |
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We slept in the hay, me and three boys from our town |
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Hunger did surround us, came on like a black sea |
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Everything it came for, rotten on the ground |
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Food was had for money, and as we had none |
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All the world around us came a-tumbling down |
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Four boys from Tralee going to a factory |
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In a place a foreign man called Ontario |
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Four boys from Tralee, forty days out on the sea |
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Without home or family, nowhere left to go |
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One morning our boy Tommy lay dying beside me |
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Cold and sick and dying and blue was what we found |
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Before he took his last breath, the ship's sailors found him |
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Before he took his last breath, they tossed him in to drown |
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If hunger makes you nothing, then, boy, I am nothing |
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Just another hungry boy washed up on the sand |
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Lucky boys who did survive the cruel deeds of cruel men |
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Lived a short and lonely life in a foreign land |
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Four boys from Tralee going to a factory |
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In a place a foreign man called Ontario |
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Four boys from Tralee, forty days out on the sea |
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One of them four boys was me, I wanted you to know |
