Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 22:03:55 -0800 From: "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> Subject: [IRELAND] "You Brave Irish Heroes" - Traditional Irish Ballad circa 1840s YOU BRAVE IRISH HEROES You brave Irish heroes wherever you be, I pray stand a moment and listen to me, Your sons and fair daughters are now going away, And thousands are sailing to Americay. So good luck to those people and safe may they land, They are leaving their country for a far distant strand, They are leaving old Ireland, no longer can stay, And thousands are sailing to Americay. The night before leaving they are bidding goodbye, And it's early next morning their heart gives a sigh, They do kiss their mothers and then they will say 'Farewell, dear old father, we must now go away.' Their friends and relations and neighbours also, When the trunks are all packed up, all ready to go, O the tears from their eyes they fall down like the rain, And the horses are prancing, going off for the train.