Liberty’s Sweet Shore 歌词

In this fading light the mainland Lies vague out on the horizon A lighthouse beaming its welcome To Gross Isle and liberty’s sweet shore For three months and a day we’ve been sailing Around pinnacles of ice we’ve been steering Storms and Nor’easters a raging To deliver us to liberty’s sweet shore john on this chorus Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore We left all we know to this new life we’ll go Sailing to liberty’s sweet shore Two pounds a head for the passage With ease our landlord surrendered And wiped his hands clean as he tendered From a distance he watched us all go We sailed on the fifth day of September Two hundred poor souls crammed together From our families and homeland we’re severed The clothes on our backs all we own We’re bowed down in sickness and hunger We pray for the hand of our maker My child was lost to a fever A quick prayer then hauled gone over broad Oceans of tears they are falling In hope and despair both recalling Now the gulls of St Lawrence they are calling Soon Quebec and liberty’s sweet shore