There is another Long Journey Home from the documentary of the same name about Irish immigration to America. Here it is, for education purposes only. It is included in the CD notes of the soundtrack for the CD, which you can order through a Mudcat link to CD Now or Music Boulevard. Just click on the Mudcat logo that says Help support the Mudcat.

Long Journey Home (Anthem)
Elvis Costello/Paddy Maloney

If on every ocean the ship is a throne,
And for each mast cut down another sapling is grown,
Then I could believe that I'm bound to find,
A better life than I left behind.

But as you ascend the ladder
Look out below where you tread,
For the colors bled as they overflowed,
Red, white and blue,
Green, white and gold.

So I had to leave from my country of birth,
As for each child grown tall,
Another lies in the earth,
And for every rail we laid in the loam
There's a thousand miles of the long journey home.

But as you ascend the ladder
Look out below where you tread,
For the colors bled as they overflowed,
Red, white and blue,
Green, white and gold.

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