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Thread #16992   Message #162169
Posted By: folk1234
13-Jan-00 - 10:45 AM
Thread Name: Loss of all hands in the irish sea
Subject: RE: Loss of all hands in the irish sea
From Joan Sprung's beautiful "Harbors of Home": "The Ocean gives us fish, and the fish it buys our bread.
Strike a bargain with the Devil so that all of us are fed.
And nothing's given free, and our bonny boys are dead.
Oh our young men from the Harbors of Home."