My Green Valleys

The seagulls are calling and the wind is in the sail

And she's fast moving over the sea

For a ship bound for St. John's three thousand miles away

A human cargo my comrades and me

Fare thee well green valleys God keep you the same

If in only my mind you'll be

For I'm sailing dark waters to far Americay

Never more my green valleys to see

There's a fever a-raging and the winds have died away

And our journey will no longer be

Though the plague is a shadow that lingers night and day

Former thoughts of green valleys I see

Fare thee well green valleys God keep you the same

If in only my mind you'll be

For I'm sailing dark waters to far Americay

Never more my green valleys to see

It hurts me to think of the things I've left behind

Though the famine has blackened the land

And to look now for something that I may never find

Is a problem that's now close at hand

Fare thee well green valleys God keep you the same

If in only my mind you'll be

For I'm sailing dark waters to far Americay

Never more my green valleys to see

Never more my green valleys to see...