City of Chicago
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In the city of Chicago as the evening shadows fall,
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there are people
dreaming of the hills of Donegal.
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1. Eighteen
forty-seven was the year it all began
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deadly
pains of hunger drove a million from the land.
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They journeyed not for glory,
their motive wasn’t greed,
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a
voyage of survival across the stormy
sea.
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2. Some of them knew fortune, and some of them knew fame,
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more
of them knew hardship and died upon the plain.
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They spread throughout the nation, they rode the railroad cars,
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brought
their songs and music to ease their lonely hearts.
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(Christy Moore)