Sorcha,

Thanks for looking but no, the song I'm after is by Elvis Costello and Mick Maloney. It was used as the anthem and song for "The Long Journey Home" about the Irish in America a few years back. It's one of those cases where the simple song has me stumped.

This is it here. I have a recording by The McKnights; it's excellent.

Thanks

Don

LONG JOURNEY HOME

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 then 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