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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was eighteen years old
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When I went down to Dublin
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With a fistfull of money
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And a cartload of dreams
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Stop rushing like hell
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And remember all is not
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What it seems to be
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For there's fellas would cut ye
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For the coat on yer back
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Or the watch that ye got
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So take care me young buck-o
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And mind yourself well
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And will ye give this wee note
Verse 2
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Was a policeman in Brooklyn
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And me father the youngest
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Looked after the farm
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When a phonecall from America
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Said 'Send the lad over'
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And the old fella said
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'Sure it wouldn't do any harm'
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For I spent me life working
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For a few pints of porter
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And the the smell of a pound
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And sure maybe there's something
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You learn loyalty
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And you can bring it back home
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Make it easy on me
Verse 3
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So I landed at Kennedy
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And a big yellow taxi
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Carried me and me bags
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Through the streets and the rain
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Well me poor heart was thumpin'
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Around with excitement
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And I hardly even heard
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What the driver was saying
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We came in the Shore Parkway
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To the Flatlands in Brooklyn
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To my Uncles apartment
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On East 53rd
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I was fellin' so happy
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I was hummin' a song
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And I sang you're as free as a bird'
Verse 4
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Well to shorten the story
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What I found out that day
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Was that Benjy got shot down
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In an uptown foray
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And while I was flyin'
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My way to New York
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Poor Benjy was lying
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In a cold city morgue
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Well I phoned up the old fella
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I could tell he could hardly
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And he wept as he told me
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'Go ahead with the plan'
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And not to forget
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Be a proud Irirshman
Verse 5
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So I went up to Nellies
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Beside Fordham Road
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And I started to learn
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About lifting the load
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But the heaviest thing
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That I carried that year
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Was the bittersweet thoughts
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Of my hometown so dear
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I went home that Decem ber
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'Cause the old fella died
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Had to borrow the money
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From a fellow on the side
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And all the bright flowers
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And brass couldn't hide
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The poor wasted face of me father
Verse 6
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I sold up the old farmyard
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For what it was worth
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Stuck a handful of earth
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Then I boarded a train
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And I caught me a plane
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And I found myself back In the US again
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Its been twenty two years
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Since I set foot in Dublin
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Me kids know to use
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The correct knife and fork
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But I'll never forget
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The green grass and the rivers
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As I keep law and order
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On the streets of New York
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