Boys from Tralee

We came across the ocean for the price on the passage
 Came across the ocean for one English pound
 We slept in the hay bed with the sheep and the shit, yeah
 We slept in the hay, me and three boys from our town
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 Hunger did surround us
 Came on like a black sea
 Everything it came for, rotten on the ground
 Food was had for money
 And as we had none
 All the world around us came a-tumbling down
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 Four boys from Tralee
 Going to a factory
 In a place a foreign man called Ontario
 Four boys from Tralee
 Forty days out on the sea
 Without home or family
 Nowhere left to go
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 One morning our boy Tommy lay dying beside me
 Cold and sick and dying and blue was what we found
 Before he took his last breath, the ship's sailors found him
 Before he took his last breath they tossed him in to drown
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 If hunger makes you nothing, then boy I am nothing
 Just another hungry boy washed up on the sand
 The lucky boys who did survive the cruel deeds of cruel men
 Would live a short and lonely life in a foreign land
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 Four boys from Tralee
 Going to a factory
 In a place a foreign man called Ontario
 Four boys from Tralee
 Forty days out on the sea
 One of them four boys was me
 I wanted you to know