Back Home In Derry Lyrics – Achill Crossing
Singer: Achill Crossing
Title: Back Home In Derry
In 1803 we sailed out to sea
Out from the sweet town of derry
For australia bound if we didn’t all drown
The marks of our fetters we carried
In the rusty iron chains we cried for our wean’s
Our good women we left in sorrow
As the main sails unfurled, our curses we hurled
At the english and thoughts of tomorrow
At the mouth of the foyle, bid farewell to the soil
As down below decks we were lying
O’doherty screamed, woken out of a dream
By a vision of bold robert dying
The sun burned cruel as we dished out the gruel
Dan o’connor was down with the fever
Sixty rebels today bound for botany bay
How many will reach their receiver
Oh, oh, i wish i was back home in derry
Oh, oh, i wish i was back home in derry
I cursed them to hell, as our bow fought the swell
Our ship danced like a moth in the firelight
Wild horses rode high as the devil passed by
Taking souls to hades by twilight
Five weeks out to sea, we were now forty-three
We buried our comrades each morning
And in our own slime, we were lost in the time
Endless night without dawning
Oh, oh, i wish i was back home in derry
Oh, oh, i wish i was back home in derry
Van diemen’s land is a hell for a man
To end out his whole life in slavery
Where the climate is raw and the gun makes the law
Neither wind nor rain care for bravery
Twenty years have gone by, i’ve ended my bond
My comrades’ ghosts walk behind me
A rebel i came, but i’m still the same
On the cold winter’s night you will find me
Oh, oh, i wish i was back home in derry
Oh, oh, i wish i was back home in derry
Oh, oh, i wish i was back home in derry
Oh, oh, i wish i was back home in derry
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