The Green Fields Of America
The Chieftains

Farewell to the groves of shillelagh and the shamrock

Farewell to the girls of old Ireland all 'round

And may their hearts be as merry as ever they could wish for

As far away o'er the ocean I'm bound

My father is old and my mother's right feeble

To leave their own country, it would grieve their heart sore

Oh, the tears down their cheeks, in great floods they are rolling

To think that I must die upon some far and foreign shore

But what matter to me, where my bones they may lie buried

If in peace and contentment I can spend my life

The green fields of Amerikay, they daily are calling

It's there I'll find an end to my misery and strife

So pack up your sea stores now, consider it no longer

Ten dollars a week isn't very bad pay

With no taxes or tithe there to devour up your wages

Across on the green fields of Amerikay

The lint dams are gone and the looms are lying idle

Gone are the winders of baskets and creels

And away o'er the ocean, go journeyman cowboys

And fiddlers who play out the old mountain reels

Ah, but I mind the time when old Ireland was flourishing

And most of her tradesmen did work for good pay

Ah, but since our manufacturers have crossed the Atlantic

Well, it's now that I must follow onto Amerikay

And now to conclude and to finish my ditty

If e'er a friendless Irishman should happen my way

With the best in the house, I will greet him and welcome him

At home on the green fields of Amerikay

So pack up your sea stores now, consider it no longer

Ten dollars a week isn't very bad pay

With no taxes or tithe there to devour up your wages

Across on the green fields of Amerikay


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  A Breton Carol   A La Orilla De Un Palmar   A Special Bear [Instrumental]   All Fall Down [Live][Instrumental]   Behind Blue Eyes   Boffyflow and Spike   Cancion Mixteca   Cancion Mixteca (Intro)   Carolina Rua / Reel   Carrickfergus   Carrickfergus [Do Bhí Bean Uasal]   Celtic Ray   Changing Your Demeanour   Chieftains Reunion   Coast of Malabar   Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies   Cotton Eyed Joe   Cotton-Eyed Joe   Cotton-Eyed Joe (From "Another Country")   Danny Boy   Danza De Concheros   Dark as a Dungeon   Ding Dong! Merrily on High   Down By The Willow Garden   Down In The Willow Garden   Dunmore Lassies [Instrumental]   End Credits   Factory Girl   Ferny Hill [Instrumental]   Frost Is All Over   Funiculì, Funiculà [Live]   God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen   Guadalupe   Hard Times Come Again No More   Have I Told You Lately   He Moved Through the Fair   Here's A Health To The Company   I can't stop loving you   I Know My Love   I Know My Love (From "Tears of Stone")   I Know My Love (W\/ The Corrs)   I'll Be All Smiles Tonight   I'll Tell Me Ma   Irish Heartbeat   Katie Dear   Lark In The Clear Air / Olam Punch   Lily Love   Little Love Affairs   Long Black Veil [Live][Medley]   Love Is Teasin'   Lullaby For The Dead   March To Battle (Across The Rio Grande)   Mo Ghile Mear   Mo Ghile Mear (our Hero)   Morning Has Broken   My Lagan Love   Never Give All The Heart   Nobody's Darlin' But Mine   O Come All Ye Faithful   O the Holly She Bears a Berry   Once in Royal David's City   Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore   Peggy Gordon   Persecucion De Villa   Pretty Little Girl   Raggle Taggle Gypsy   Raglan Road   Rain And Snow   Redemption Song   Sailing To Mexico   School Days Over   She Moved Through the Fair   Shenandoah   Sisters of Mercy   Star of the County Down   StStephen's Day Murders   Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta (My Match It Is Made)   The Boar's Head Carol   The Connemara Coast   The Foggy Dew   The Foggy Dew (W/ Sinead O'Conner)   The Green Fields of America (or Canada)   The Lily of the West   The Long Black Veil   The Lowlands of Holland   The Magdalene Laundries   The Magdalene Laundries - With Joni Mitchell   The Rebel Jesus   The Rocky Road To Dublin   The Sands Of Mexico   The Star Of The County Down   The Wexford Carol   The Wren in the Furze   When The Ship Comes In   Whole Heap Of Little Horses   Wild Mountain Thyme   Winnie The Pooh

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