Paroles de 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 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 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 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 If hunger makes you nothing, then, boy, I am nothing Just another hungry boy washed up on the sand Lucky boys who did survive the cruel deeds of cruel men Lived a short and lonely life in a foreign land 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