In youth I craved adventure, to Australia I did stray
Leaving friends and my dear mother for adventure far away
She begged me not to leave her or to return some day
To the bonny banks of Claudy, ten thousand miles away

Chorus:
Oh blame me not for weeping, oh blame me not I say
For I long to see my mother, ten thousand miles away

The rest of his verson of Claudy Banks from Nova Scotia is in Lyr Add: CLAUDY BANKS (trad, Nova Scotia).