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Intro: A A A A
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They say Mother Earth is breathing
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With each wave that finds the shore
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Her soul rises in the evening
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For to open twilight's doors
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Her eyes are the stars in heaven
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Watching o'er us all the while
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And her heart it is in Ireland
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Deep within the Emerald Isle
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We were forty against hundreds,
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In someone else's bloody war.
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We know not why we're fighting,
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Or what we're dying for.
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They will storm us in the morning,
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As the sunlight turns the sky.
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Death is waiting for it's dance now,
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Fate has sentenced us to die.
Chorus:
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Ireland, I am coming home!
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I can see your rolling fields of green
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And fences made of stone.
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I am reaching out, won't you take my hand
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I'm coming home, I-re-land!
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Oh the captain he lay bleeding
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And I can hear him calling me
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These men are yours now for the leading
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Show them to their destiny
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And as I looked up all around me
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I see the ragged tired and torn
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I tell them to make ready
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Cause we're not waiting for the morn.
**Chorus
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Now the fog is deep and heavy
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As we forge the dark and fear
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We can hear their horses breathing
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As in silence we draw near
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And there are no words to be spoken
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Just a look to say goodbye
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I draw a breath and night is broken
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As I scream our battle cry
**Chorus
A F#m D E A
Yes I am home, I-re-land!