go when they do cause their parents grief They spend all long years in a firey hell where there is no relief In Purgatory, oh all the day Purgatory
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Sing homeland smile Our sad and lonely weakness will be gone for a while Sing homeland smile And give our motherland back her style Not across an ocean
Bred as we among the mountains how the sailor understands The divine intoxication of the first league out from land Endless sea I've chosen vast and
Well here I am again In a foreign town where I know no one On another continent Well it's four o'clock and I'm with someone That I haven't met before
I'm going away But I promise to return some day But if I don't I promise to remember you And let us share a drink so that we can remember The way things
When my granda' met with Patsy Cline He thought he'd have a wonderful time She stepped on his foot and he did pine I'm none the better for dancing I'
Her slightest move still commands my attention I've seen her look radiant engulfed in convention More beautiful than anyone here or I've seen I've followed
Well oh remember that day, average and gray, you came to me and then I heard a kindness like a memory I once felt on a passing wind Oh but the kindness
Then I'll haste to wed a sailor and send him off to sea For a life of independence is the pleasant life for me But every now and then I would like to
I sit alone I drink alone I was born alone I'll die alone I dream alone I heal alone I exist alone And maybe now that's a lot of alone to put up with
Well I often walk down to the pub in springtime To take the summer breeze and drink with friends But on the 12th day of September I went down there To
Purgatory Oh all the money that e'er I had, I spent it in good company And of all the harm that ever I've done alas it was to none but me And all I've
Well we altered the face of our city, yes we've often burned it down Is our union what we hoped for when our children hit the ground It's simply government
Oh and here we go again A broken bottle in my hand And our taxed joints crack and bend From our backs we rise and stand Oh and here we go again Our vision
Well we had a mouse right in our house and were afraid to move But I'd never trade that time we spent huddled up in the front room No chill or rats or
Well although I've labored most of my days I truly enjoy the work But not too much I really must say On my roving I won't shirk Well everyone has fear
