| Leaving now for Nova Scotia
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| My homeland’s kindred isle
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| Always an arm so far apart
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| We span the silver miles
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| In search of work, I come to you
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| As our fathers did before
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| On white-sailed ships we packed our lives and left
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| We left our native shore
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| The ships they anchor side by side
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| Our brave new world is here
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| Spirits higher than they’ve been
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| For many, many years
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| In search of work, I come to you
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| As our fathers did before
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| Across the dark and briny seas to find
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| Your nativ shore
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| In the burning horizon
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| Feeds a fire
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| Smoky hadland, darkest isle
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| Staring seaward, deepest ocean
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| Over tide
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| Oh, in the burning horizon
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| Feeds a fire
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| Smoky headland, darkest isle
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| Staring seaward, deepest ocean
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| Over tide
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| Struggle’s hard for seven months
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| Our travels take us far
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| Desperate times we then endure
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| Until America
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| From there to Spain, then on again
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| For another war to fight
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| I’m dreaming of my own homeland far from
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| Far from this weary light
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| Coming home from Canada
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| And I’m coming home from Spain
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| I’ve been to America
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| And I’m coming home again
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| Spying Ross’s darkest isle
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| The patchwork fields of green
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| Along the view to where my heart
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| Will always be
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| In the burning horizon
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| Feeds a fire
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| Smoky headland, darkest isle
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| Staring seaward, deepest ocean
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| Ohhhhh
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| In the burning horizon
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| Feeds a fire
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| Smoky headland, darkest isle
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| Staring seaward, deepest ocean
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| Over tide |