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By the lonely prison wall

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I heard a young girl ca-------ll

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Michael, they have taken you away,

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For you stole Trevelyn's corn,

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So the young might see the morn.

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Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay.


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Low ____ lie the fields of athenry

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Where once we watch the small free birds fly

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Our love was on the wing

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We had dreams and songs to sing

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It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry

By a lonely prison wall,
I heard a young man call
"Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free
Against the famine and the crown,
I rebelled, they cut me down.
Now you must raise our child with dignity.
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By a lonely harbor wall,
She watched the last star fall
As the prison ship sailed out against the sky
For she lived to hope and pray
For her love in Botany Bay
It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.
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