The Crossing

THE CROSSING

In these sad and lonely days for Ireland

Our people shipped across the ocean wide

They left their footsteps by the harbour walls

And their dreams are in the hills

And the cabins that were home

In the fields and in the towns of Ireland.

Chorus:

In our hearts we always will remember

All the tragedy, the hunger, the death and pain.

In our hearts we always will remember

All the millions that were lost

All the lifes that it cost

In those ships, those coffin ships, those ships of tears.

In overcrowded ships not fit for people

The angel of death did cast it's hungry eye

For many will die upon the ocean deep

And the childrens' hungry pleas

From the ??? and disease

In those ships, those coffin ships, those ships of tears.

Now their ghosts will dance upon the ocean,

Their spirits are wandering on a lonely wave.

The moon and stars will cast a laughing eye,

build a bridge across the sea.

Place a cross, in memory

For each life that was lost in that holocaust.