The Green Rolling Hills of My Home The Irish Rovers

[Verse 1]
Well I’m bidding farewell to the land of my childhood
Where friends and relations remain
With me heart full of woe it grieves me to go
But I mean to return once again

[Verse 2]
The land that I love can no longer support us
The hunger and cold takes no rest
The blight on the fields leaves little to yield
And the landlords take only the best

[Chorus]
So I’m sailing away at the dawn of the day
But no matter where I chance to roam
Me heart it will yearn til the day I return
To the green rolling hills of my home

[Verse 3]
The old ones they say that the voyage is folly
To cross the Atlantical Sea
And many before who sailed from the shore
Well they never reached sweet liberty

[Chorus]
So I’m sailing away at the dawn of the day
But no matter where I chance to roam
Me heart it will yearn til the day I return
To the green rolling hills of my home