We Sold Our Homesteads

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We sold our homesteads and 
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started on our way
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Just like the birds will fly when 
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autumn is here to stay
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One day they will return, come 
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spring again that's when
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But we will never see our native 
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country again

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At first we traveled through the 
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English  countryside
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On tracks and on wagons, as 
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quickly as birds would fly
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It was a lovely sight to see the
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 land at last
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But all the glorious sights kept 
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flashing by too fast
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The glorious sights kept flashing 
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by too fast


And later when we came to 
Liverpudlian bay
The tears of regret finally started 
to have their say
The hearts then started burning in 
each and everyone
We only talked of Sweden that used 
to be our home


We all were packed together in one 
unhealthy cave
It was as if we'd stepped into an 
open grave
The food that we had brought from 
blessed Swedish land
Was suddenly for-bi-hi-dden and 
taken from our hand
It was for-bi-hi-dden and taken from
 our hand

And when we had been sailing for 
just a week or two
A horrid kind of darkness was 
clouding our view
We couldn't see each other and 
hardly breathe or walk
It was a gruesome anguish for all 
people aboard

The air was filled with hunger and 
drenched in wretched cries
The howling and the noises would 
pierce right through the skies
And death became the ru-hoo-ler that
 forced us to our knees
The dead were buried in the horrid 
fathom of the seas
They were buried in the fathom of 
the seas