[00:00.00]It's a Long Way Home to Donegal - Larrikin Love
[00:17.23]I'll follow you father wherever you go
[00:20.37]I know the roads well
[00:22.68]We can be strong together
[00:25.55]With a drink in our chest we'll be strong we'll be strong
[00:30.86]While I love you dear mother now don't you frown
[00:34.29]I'll be back some day without the gray skies
[00:37.94]We'll have supper together again we'll have supper once again
[00:44.77]It's a long way home
[00:51.26]It's a long way home to Donegal
[00:58.65]So farewell my beauty my sweet young girl
[01:02.58]I'll see you again I'll marry you as well
[01:05.63]We'll make love have sweet children and make love once again
[01:12.60]Then December the 12th a letter it came
[01:16.11]It read son your young love was slain by a fever last night
[01:21.04]Oh no I never saw her again
[01:26.73]It's a long way home
[01:33.51]It's a long way home to Donegal
[01:40.76]It's a long way home
[01:47.80]It's a long way home to Donegal
[02:22.95]Oh say so my brother wherever we roam
[02:27.21]I love you like the places we go
[02:30.66]And our friends smoke cigarettes and they're friends best of friends
[02:37.46]Oh now there's Irish blood in our English years
[02:41.72]We fight with our fists and swallow our fears
[02:44.61]And be strong with a drink in our chest we'll be strong we'll be strong
[02:52.19]It's a long way home
[02:58.45]It's a long way home to Donegal
[03:05.56]It's a long way home
[03:12.43]It's a long way home to Donegal