cd: Dulahan
track 5: When I Left Ireland
When I left Ireland long ago,
I promised my return I’d show
So many years have past that day,
I fear she’s turned away
I often curse that fateful night,
I kissed her lips and held her tight
And pledged that I’d return in time,
with fortune at my side
But it was not for gold she pined,
but sorrow born being left behind
That western ocean so unkind,
could she forgive the tides?
REFRAIN
There’s not a night I’ll live to see,
without her redhaired memory
She swore to God she’d wait for me,
as faithfully she cried
But I set off to take my stand,
her locket in my calloused hands
I’d make my way in this new land
return to claim my bride
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The fortune it eludes me still,
I labor in a Boston mill
If only I could know her will,
has time erased that flame
And I’m between two countries torn,
the land I’m on, the land I’m born
I’d go to her could I afford
but sadly I remain.
REFRAIN
Dulahan Music
Written by Kyle Aughe