《The Emigrant’s Letter》歌词

[00:00:00] The Emigrant's Letter - John Roche

[00:00:10] Dear Danny I'm taking the pen in me hand

[00:00:16] To tell you we're just out of sight of the land

[00:00:21] In the grand Allan liner I'm sailing in style

[00:00:26] But I'm sailing away from the Emerald Isle

[00:00:32] A strange sort of sigh seemed to come from us all

[00:00:37] As the waves hid the lad bit of auld Donegal

[00:00:43] Oh it's well to be you that is takin' yer tay

[00:00:49] Where they're cuttin' the corn in Creeslough today

[00:01:01] There's a woman on board who knows Katie by sight

[00:01:07] And we talked of auld times 'till they put out the light

[00:01:12] I'm to meet the good woman tomorra' on deck

[00:01:18] Sure we'll talk about Katie from this to Quebec

[00:01:23] I know I'm not match for her no not in the least

[00:01:28] With her house and two cows and her brother a priest

[00:01:35] But the woman declares Katie's heart's on the sea

[00:01:41] While mines with the reapers round Creeslough the day

[00:01:54] Goodbye to you Danny no more's to be said

[00:02:00] And I think the salt water's got into me head

[00:02:05] For it drips from me eyes when I call to me mind

[00:02:11] The friends and the coleen I'm leaving behind

[00:02:17] And still she might wait when I bid her goodbye

[00:02:22] There was just the least taste of a tear in her eye

[00:02:29] And a break in her voice when she said

[00:02:34] You might stay

[00:02:36] But please God you'll come back to auld Creeslough some day