The fields of athenry (4/4)

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1] By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl cal - ling
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"Michael, they are ta-king you a-way,
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For you stole Trev-el-yan's corn, so the young might see the morn.
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Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay."

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Low lie the fields of A-then- ry,
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Where once we watched the small free birds fly
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Our love was on the wing, we had dreams and songs to sing
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It's so lonely round the fields of A-then-ry.


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2] By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young man cal – ling
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"Nothing matters Mary, when you're free
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Against the Famine and the Crown, I re-bel-led, they cut me down.
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Now you must raise our child with dig-ni-ty." Refrein


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3] By a lonely harbor wall, she watched the last star fal - ling
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As the prison ship sailed out against the sky
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For she lived to hope and pray for her love in Botany Bay
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It's so lonely round the fields of A-then-ry.