Key: Db major•
Verse 1
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From the home you will soon be leaving.
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C#m
My name is
Mary
Clare
County
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Cork
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At eighteen years of age I
sailed for the shores of old
New
York
With seven hundred picture brights
torn between hope and fear
At last we spied
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Manhattan and the famous
Isle of
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Tears
My first taste of the new world
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Turned to ashes very fast
The ones who entered freely
Were from first and second class
We steel -rich folk remained on board
As if we were exiles
Ellis
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Isle
We disembarked and stood in line with
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chalk marks on our coats
he'd be back on the boat
They asked us what our reading was,
could we read or write?
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set the dormitories alight
My best friend was deported
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Another sin to swim,
born idle, of cholera alone
The rest of us were shipped
to trains bound for
Midwest states
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and our prospective mates
He's
American
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Man
And in
American
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Land
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Irish eyes and colours tans
American
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Man
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsAb Gb Cb Db Ebm...
Ab
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Cb
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B
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Capo: 1
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