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Thread #105627 Message #2175465
Posted By: Small Stoat
20-Oct-07 - 04:29 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Look at me now
Subject: Lyr Req: Look at me now
Can anyone identify the following chorus? I heard it on a ship the other week, and was promised the name of the artist and the rest of the lyrics, but was never sent them, and I really liked it. It's about the settlers from the Isle of Lewis who went to Canada. The chorus goes
"Look at me now, I'm a thousand miles from home, On board the , Rolling through the foam My heart it aches for Lewis My mother, and my my dad But I'll cross the rolling ocean for my handsome farmer lad.."