Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Flight of the Earls, artist - Paddy Reilly.
Date of issue: 31.12.1990
Song language: English
The Flight of the Earls |
I can hear the bells of Dublin in this lonely waiting room |
And the paper boys are singing in the rain |
Not too long before they take us to the airport and the noise |
to get on board a trans-Atlantic plane |
We’ve got nothing left to stay for and no more left to say |
and there isn’t any work for us to do |
So farewell you boys and girls |
another bloody flight of Earls |
Our best asset is nore our best export too |
It’s not murder, fear, nor famine that makes us leave this time |
We’re not going to join MacAlpines Fusiliers |
We’ve got brains and we’ve got vision, we’ve got education too |
But we just can’t throw away these precious years |
So we walk the streets of London and the streets of Baltimore |
And we meet at night in several Boston bars |
We’re the leaders of the future though we’re far away from home |
And we dream of you beneath the Irish stars |
As we look on Ellis Island and the Lady in the bay |
And Manhatten turns to face another Sunday |
We just think of what you’re doing to bring us all back home |
As we look forward to another Monday |
For it’s not the work that scares us, we don’t mind an honest job |
And we know things will get better once again |
So a thousand times adieu, we’ve got Bono and U2 |
All we’re missing is the Guinness and the rain |
So switch off your new computers for the writing’s on the wall |
We’re leaving as our fathers did before |
Take a look at Dublin airport or the boat that leaves North Wall |
There’ll be no youth unemployment anymore |
For we’re over here in Queensland and in parts of New South Wales |
We’re on the seas, the airways, and the trains |
But if we see better days, those big airplanes go both ways |
And we’ll all be coming back to you again |
Yes we’ll all be coming back to you again |