| Paroles de la chanson Thousands Are Sailing:
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| You brave Irish heroes where’er you may be
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| I pray, stand a moment and listen to me
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| Your sons and fair daughters are all going away
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| And thousands are sailing to Americay
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| So good luck to those people and safe may they land
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| They are leaving their country for a far distant strand
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| They are leaving old Ireland, no longer can stay
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| And thousands are sailing to Americay
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| Now the night before leaving they are bidding good-bye
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| And it’s early next morning their hearts give a sigh
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| They turn, kiss their mothers and then they will say
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| «Farewell, dear old father, we must now go away»
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| Oh I pity the mother who rears up the child
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| And likewise the father who labors and toils
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| To try to support them, he will work night and day
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| And when they are reared up they will go away
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| So good luck to those people and safe may they land
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| They are leaving their country for a far distant strand
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| They are leaving old Ireland, no longer can stay
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| And thousands are sailing to America |