| Oh, I met her on the Cliffs of Moher
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| A lovely girl in a lovely land
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| She said she came from Philadelphia
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| A city in a far-off land
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| She always wanted to see Ireland
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| A place she calls her ancestral home
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| Her people came from Tipperary
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| From Cork, from Belfast, and Tyrone
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| A land of beauty and of mystery
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| This ancient land that I love
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| A land of history and tragedy
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| This is the land I love
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| A land of beauty and tranquility
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| Of our music and of song
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| A land of mystery and history
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| This is the land I love (Ireland)
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| So, I walked around the Ring of Kerry
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| Killarney’s lakes and Cashel’s halls
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| Through lofty hills and pleasant valleys
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| She found a land that was her home
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| In the Georges Streets of Dublin city
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| Love blossomed like a summer’s rose
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| Then to Tara’s Hill of ancient legend
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| And New Grange at the evening’s close
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| A land of beauty and of mystery
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| This ancient land that I love
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| A land of history and tragedy
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| This is the land I love
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| A land of beauty and tranquility
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| Of our music and of song
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| A land of mystery and history
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| This is the land I love (Ireland)
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| Then we walked the streets of Ulster
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| We’ve seen a divided, troubled land
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| With emblems, flags, and colours blazing
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| A divided people, a divided land
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| On Antrim’s coast we saw great beauty
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| On the Causeway we took photographs
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| From Derry’s walls right through Lough Erne
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| We shared our jokes and songs and laughs
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| A land of beauty and of mystery
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| This ancient land that I love
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| A land of history and tragedy
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| This is the land I love
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| A land of beauty and tranquility
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| Of our music and of song
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| A land of mystery and history
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| This is the land I love (Ireland)
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| We said goodbye on the Cliffs of Moher
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| In a fleeting glance love passed us by
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| As the sun was merging with the ocean
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| And disappearing from the sky
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| Then the moon rose up in great defiance
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| For stars were twinkling in the sky
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| In the shadows of that summer’s evening
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| We kissed once more and said goodbye (Ireland) |