Boys from Tralee-Patty Griffin

[00:19.45]We came across the ocean for the price on the passage [00:24.53]Came across the ocean for one English pound [00:29.19]We slept in the hay bed with the sheep and the shit, yeah [00:33.77]We slept in the hay, me and three boys from our town [00:38.44] [00:56.10]Hunger did surround us, came on like a black sea [01:00.77]Everything it came for, rotten on the ground [01:05.38]Food was had for money, and as we had none [01:10.00]All the world around us came a-tumbling down [01:14.54] [01:23.28]Four boys from Tralee going to a factory [01:28.20]In a place a foreign man called Ontario [01:32.98]Four boys from Tralee, forty days out on the sea [01:37.22]Without home or family, nowhere left to go [01:47.22] [02:04.95]One morning our boy Tommy lay dying beside me [02:09.60]Cold and sick and dying and blue was what we found [02:14.28]Before he took his last breath, the ship's sailors found him [02:18.69]Before he took his last breath, they tossed him in to drown [02:23.52] [02:41.00]If hunger makes you nothing, then, boy, I am nothing [02:45.60]Just another hungry boy washed up on the sand [02:50.24]Lucky boys who did survive the cruel deeds of cruel men [02:54.82]Lived a short and lonely life in a foreign land [03:00.30] [03:08.18]Four boys from Tralee going to a factory [03:12.89]In a place a foreign man called Ontario [03:17.60]Four boys from Tralee, forty days out on the sea [03:22.11]One of them four boys was me, I wanted you to know