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(Oh, Ireland must be heaven for my mother came from there)
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I've often heard my daddy
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speak of Ireland's lakes and dells,
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The place must be like Heaven,
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if it's half like what he tells;
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There's roses fair and shamrocks there,
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and laughing waters flow;
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I have never seen that Isle of Green,
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But there's one thing sure I know.
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Ireland must be Heaven, for an angel came from there,
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I never knew a living soul, one half as sweet or fair,
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For her eyes are like the star light, And the white clouds match her hair, sure
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Ireland must be Heaven, For My Mother Came From There.
I've pictured in my fondest dreams
old Ireland's vales and rills,
I see a stairway to the sky,
formed by her verdant hills;
Each wave that's in the ocean blue
just loves to hug the shore,
So if Ireland isn't Heaven,
then sure, It must be right next door.
[Words and Music by Joe McCarthy, Howard Johnson & Fred Fischer. Published 1916 by Leo. Feist]
midi and sibelius score at
http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2002-2/thismonth/featureb.asp