Most of this is already in the Digital Tradition, and in Cathy's post above. But for the sake of completeness:

Thread #57933   Message #913745
Posted By: Stewart
19-Mar-03 - 03:09 PM
Thread Name: genealogy and folk music
Subject: RE: genealogy and folk music

Here's a song my friend Cathy Ross wrote after her first trip to her ancestral home in Ireland. It is on her recent self-released CD "Times of Summer Sun". You can email her about purchasing a copy.

Home To Ireland
-Cathy Ross, Copyright 1998
canw@mindspring.com

I went over to Ireland to just say hello
To honor ancestors who left long ago
But when I saw the green hills and the mist rolling slow
I knew that my heart had come home

   
CHORUS:I've come home to Ireland from 200 years
To people with faces like looking in mirrors
We sang some old songs, and we cried some old tears
And I knew that my heart had come home.

I wandered the lands my ancestors had known
Killarney, Kilkenny, Tralee and Tyrone
And wherever I'd go, 'twas "come in and sit down"
And I knew that my heart had come home
chorus)

From the north to the south, they told one wish to me
Peace for all Ireland, united and free
For a land with no borders except for the sea
A land with one heart and one home.
chorus)

Cheers, S. in Seattle