Key: E major
Verse 1
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Em
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There's a glen
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in old Tirkenau
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Where once dwelt an Irish Colleen
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Who inspired the hearts of men
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She was handsome, pale and hearty,
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And they loved the widow's daughter,
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handsome, Noreen
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Bond
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Then one day there came a letter
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with her passage paid to go
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To the land where the Missouri
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and the Mississippi flow
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So she said good -bye to Aaron
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And next morning with the dawn
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This poor widow broken -hearted
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Parted with her Noreen
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Vaughn
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Many years the widow waited
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Came a tender -hearted woman
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Costly were the clothes she wore
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Saying, Mother,
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don't you know me?
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Though I'm frail, tis but a cold
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flushed and scarlet
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And another tale they
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told
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There's a graveyard in Tircona
Where the flowers wildly
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wave
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There's a grey -haired mother kneeling
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O 'er the green and lonely grave
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And my Noreen, she is saying,
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Was the curse of emigration
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my Noreen Bond?
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Now for loose an d tender maiden,
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ponder well before you go
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From your humble homes
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what's beyond you'll never know
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What is gold and what is silver,
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When you speak of emigration,
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won't you think of Noreen Bond?
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When you speak of emigration,
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won't you think of Noreen Bond?
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