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Tela Dividida
Impressão
FAQ
The Eviction
Celtic Connection
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My name it is Sweeney father of two sons I am
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a courier tenant like many a true mountain man
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my wife fell to famine my heart will never repair
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but worse was to come in the form of John George Adair
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the news in the valley a stranger had bought up the land
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soon twenty eight thousand acres he would command
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but we were to learn that the blood in his body ran cold
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for the suffering of the poor was John Adairs goal
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the hills and the mountains know your name
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the deer even hang their heads in shame
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and even the longest winters rain
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can't wash away all the suffering and pain
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of the evictions at Derryveagh
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he sworn us lies had us arrested and jailed
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for the murder of Murrog his agent but justice prevailed
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but vengeance was feasting inside of his cold Scottish heart
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so the notice was given the people and land they must part
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one cold april morning eighteen sixty one
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two hundred soldiers the bayonets John and his son
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led by the sheriff they marched to the grove by the bay
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a widow six daughters a son first homeless Lough Barra
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the hills and the mountains know your name
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the deer even hang their heads in shame
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and even the longest winters rain
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can't wash away all the suffering and pain
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of the evictions at Derryveagh
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two hundred forty four people left homeless that day
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while John Adairs castle was planned for the shores of Lough Veagh
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some to the poorhouse some to Australia's shores
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but all said goodbye to our homeland they'd see nevermore
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the hills and the mountains know your name
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the deer even hang their heads in shame
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and even the longest winters rain
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can't wash away all the suffering and pain
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of the evictions at Derryveagh
Worked the words out for this listening to it over and over not being Irish
I wasn't sure of some of the terms so I researched what I could but the term courier
tenant as it sounded to me I was unable to nail down. any corrections would be welcomed
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