Back Home In Sweet Tralee chords by The Irish Rovers

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Farewell
to the green fields
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where I didn't roam
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Likewise to the mountains and glens
To the lassie I love
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and my parents so dear
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I never will see them again
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Why did I leave my native home
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And cross the raging sea
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No more I'll hear the weaver sing
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Back home in sweet Tralee
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Through wind and rain and a rolling sea
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We suffered each lonely mile
We thought we would
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never see land again
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And I dreamed about Erin's green eye
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Why did I leave my native home
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And cross the raging sea?
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No more I'll hear the weaver sing
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That bogan's sweet relief
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We landed safely in New York,
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And they soon had us workin' away
Buildin' the railways and
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bridges and dams
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We were workin' twelve hours a day
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Why did I leave my native home
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and cross the raging sea?
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No more I'll hear the weavers sing
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back home in sweet Cali
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Now if good fortune should shine on me,
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That I  might have money in store,
I'll go back to the green
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rolling hills of Tralee
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And then I will ramble no more
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Why did I leave my native home
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and cross the raging sea?
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No more I'll hear the weavers sing
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About golden sweet Tralee
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