Key: C# minor
Verse 1
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Oh, Father dear,
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I oft times hear you speak
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of Eden's Isle
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our mountains rude and wild
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To say it is a lovely land
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wherein a prince might dwell
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Oh, why did you abandon it?
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The reason to me tell
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Oh, son, I love my native land
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with energy and pride
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Till the blight came over all my crops,
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my sheep and cattle died
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My rent and taxes were too high,
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I could not help them be jean
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And that's the cruel reason
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why I left old Skipperine
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Oh, well do I remember that
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bleak December day
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came to drive us all away
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with their curses tingly -spleen
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An d that's another reason
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why I left old Skibbereen
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fell on the snowy ground
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She fainted in her anguish,
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see the desolation ground
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She never long passed away,
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dream
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And found a quiet grave, my five,
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in dear old Skipper Ream
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And you were only two years old,
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and Feeble was your friend
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I could not leave you with my friends,
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you bore your father's name
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I wrapped you in my coat of mourn
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I leaved a
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sigh an d bade goodbye
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to dear old Skipper King
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Oh, Father dear, the day may come
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When in answer to the call
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Each Irish man with feelings stern
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Will rally one and all
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I'll be the man to
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Beneath the flag of green
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Revenge must give all mean
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