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sean o'halloran - frank harte lyrics

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[verse 1]
my name is seán o’halloran, i am sixty*one years old
i left my boyhood days behind, to search for fame and gold
i left my home in tralee town in my twenty*second year
i would dig for gold on england’s shore, i would make my fortune there

[verse 2]
three weary months in search of work, i tramped the streets around
a shake*me*down in camden town, well, it was my first abode
no friendly glance to cheer my heart, no man to shake my hand
no easy gold, just rain and cold, in this god*forsaken land

[verse 3]
go down the trench proud irishman, while you are strong and big
and take your shovel by the neck, spit on your hand and dig
tear out the guts of mother earth from dawn till fading light
in the nearest pub you will drink your sub and you’ll think and love and fight

[verse 4]
i loved a girl in liverpool, she came from out mayo
i’ve known some girls from tiger bay with t**th like virgin snow
i’ve ate my food in small shebeens, i have drunk the porter black
and many’s a bed where i’ve laid my head well the lice crawled up my back

[verse 5]
my bones they are all weary now, and my shoulders they are bent
my once black hair is grey with age, and my money is all spent
when sergeant death will call me home and he takes me by the hand
it’s not in tralee town, they will lay me down, but far from this native land

- frank harte lyrics

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