I'll follow you father wherever you go,nI know the roads well,nwe can be strong together.nWith a drink in our chest we'll be strong, we'll be strong.nnWhile I love you dear mother, now, don't you frown,nI'll be back some day without the gray skies.nWe'll have supper, together again, we'll have supper, once again.nnIt's a long way home.nIt's a long way home to Donegal.nnSo farewell my beauty, my sweet young girl,nI'll see you again, I'll marry you as well,nwe'll make love, have sweet children, and make love, once again.nnThen December the 12th, a letter it came,nIt read son, your young love was slain by a fever last night,nOh no, I never saw her againnnIt's a long way home.nIt's a long way home to Donegal.nnOh say so my brother, wherever we roam,nI love you like the places we go,nand our friends smoke cigarettes, and they're friends, best of friendsnnOh now there's Irish blood in our English years.nWe fight with our fists and swallow our fears,nand be strong, with a drink in our chest we'll be strong, we'll be strong.nnIt's a long way home.nIt's a long way home to Donegal.n