Lone Shanakyle

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Where the wild waves surging foam, headlands appearing
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Clouded in silver spray, flashing through heaven's bright ray
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For thy glory and pride, lovely Éireann


[Verse 2]
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Sweet, sweet Inis Cathaigh, the sacred, the blessed
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Fit place for a saint or a warrior's rest
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Your sentinel towers left each storm repressed
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Your mourning waves wail for my Éireann


[Verse 3]
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There is nothing now left, holy isle, but thy name
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The ruin of thy glory, thy grandeur, thy fame
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For foreign laws see thy sadness and pain
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That now cause thy anguish, my Éireann


[Chorus]
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Lonely and sad I roam, far from my island home
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Where the wild waves surging foam, headlands appearing
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Clouded in silver spray, flashing through heaven's bright ray
        C         Am            G
For thy glory and pride, lovely Éireann


[Verse 4]
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How dearly I longed for to wander once more
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To the loved ones I left at my old cabin door
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My blessings I'd given a thousand times o'er
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And a prayer and a tear for poor Éireann


[Verse 5]
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Sad, sad is my fate in this weary exile
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Dark, dark is the night cloud o'er lone Shanakyle
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Where the murdered sleep silently pile upon pile
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In the coffinless graves of poor Éireann


[Chorus]
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Lonely and sad I roam, far from my island home
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Where the wild waves surging foam, headlands appearing
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Clouded in silver spray, flashing through heaven's bright ray
        C         Am            G
For thy glory and pride, lovely Éireann