Mid sadness of fond recollections tonight
A yearning possesses my soul
To end the hard struggle and thirty years' fight
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In exile I pine for my loved native isle,
My thoughts get full rein as they go
To scenes that were dearest, when heaven did smile
On Louisburgh in County Mayo
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I see the dear faces I loved as a lad
And long to be with them once more
A sweet, gentle mother and kind, loving dad.
May God bless them both o'er and o'er
And, oh for the friends that I left long ago -
I'd love to be with them tonight in Mayo,
In Louisburgh the place of my birth
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