Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song A Song for Ireland, artist - Mary Black. Album song Twenty Five Years-Twenty Five Songs, in the genre Музыка мираDate of issue: 24.04.2008
Record label: 3ú
Song language: English
A Song for Ireland |
| Leave the land behind, laddie, better days to find |
| The companies have the money and they’ll soon teach you the skills |
| Green fields fall away, the forties and the brae |
| Be a madman or a roustabout, they’ll soon teach you to drill |
| But who will tend me sheep when I’m far o’er the deep? |
| Amanertune or the sea quest when the snow comes to the hill |
| La, la, la… |
| Leave the fishing trade, lads, there’s money to be made |
| The hand-line and the Shetland yawl are of a bygone day |
| Come to Aberdeen; |
| sights you’ve never seen |
| Be a welder on the pipeline or a fitter out on the bay |
| But when the job is over and your boat rots on the shore |
| How will you feed your family when the companies go away? |
| La, la, la… |
| There’s harbors to be built, lads, rigs to tow and tilt |
| To rest upon the ocean bed like pylons in the sea |
| Pipeline to be laid and a hundred different trades |
| That’ll pay a decent living wage to the likes of you and me |
| I know you’re men of worth; |
| you’re the best that’s in the north |
| Not men of greed, but men who need the work that’s come your way |
| From fluppatemunke shore a new industry is born |
| Old Peterhead and Pomerty will never be the same |
| I know you’re men of worth; |
| you’re the best that’s in the north |
| Not men of greed, but men who need the work that’s come your way |
| La, la, la… |