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Thread #89352 Message #4204961
Posted By: Bearheart
04-Jul-24 - 08:39 AM
Thread Name: refugee and immigration songs
Subject: RE: refugee and immigration songs
GeoffLawes, Thank you for posting "The Heart is True" by Peta Webb. So moving. I must learn it. I wish there was a way to get the recording but I'm sure it has not been reissued. A great loss. But at least we have the youtube video.
Another reason I must come to this site more often.
Our ship is ready to bear away Come, comrades, o’er the stormy sea. Her snow-white wings, they are unfurled And soon she’ll swim in a watery world.
Chorus (after each verse): Ah, do not forget, love; do not grieve, For the heart is true and can’t deceive. My heart and hand with you I’ll leave; Fare thee well truelove and remember me.
Farewell to thee, my precious pearl, It’s my lovely dark-haired, blue-eyed girl. And when I’m on the stormy sea; When you think on Ireland, remember me.
Farewell to Dublin’s hills and braes, To Killarney’s lakes and silvery seas. There’s many a bright, long, summer’s day When we passed those hours of joy away.
Oh, Erin, dear, it grieves my heart To think that I so soon must part. And friends so ever-dear and kind In sorrow I must leave behind.