The Irish Rovers – Band Without A Country (Guitar)

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We left our home in ireland many years ago

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And crossed the wide atlantic to a place called mimico

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Just outside toronto we started our new life

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Far from dear ould ireland her troubles and her strife

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Raised with love and music we knew the old songs well

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I met big jim from belfast and together we did gell

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It was derry’s quay and brigid flynn and whiskey in the jar

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When joe would sing kellswater there was quiet in the bar

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A band without a country a band without a home

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And yet we’re always welcome no matter where we roam

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No one wants to claim us no one knows we’re there

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A band without a country is our cross to bear

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We travelled cross the country to canada’s western shore

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Will was singing children’s songs ‘twas there he jumped on board

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We left for california with a pocket full of dreams

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The goodship irish rover was sailing at full steam

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A band without a country a band without a home

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And yet we’re always welcome no matter where we roam

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No one wants to claim us no one knows we’re there

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A band without a country is our cross to bear

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The icehouse and the troubadour became our stomping grounds

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The purple onion hungry I the circuit we went round

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The bitterend the lumbermill and mecca were the cream

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We played them all from east to west and all spots in between

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A band without a country a band without a home

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And yet we’re always welcome no matter where we roam

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No one wants to claim us no one knows we’re there

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A band without a country is our cross to bear

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Shel was writing stories and singing on the side

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He let us have his unicorn and we took it for a ride

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It served us well a good few years fifty comes to mind

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Wherever we went roving round providence was kind

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A band without a country a band without a home

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And yet we’re always welcome no matter where we roam

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No one wants to claim us no one knows we’re there

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A band without a country is our cross to bear

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Not irish enough for ireland that’s hard to understand

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And canada turned her back because we’re not from newfoundland

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So we’ll leave it to the people our fans beyond compare

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The ones who hear the music of the boys from god knows where

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A band without a country a band without a home

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And yet we’re always welcome no matter where we roam

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No one wants to claim us no one knows we’re there

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A band without a country is our cross to bear

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Gold records on the wall a doorway to the past

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Memories to ponder on but memories never last

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But music lives forever and we’ll always have a song

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But still i have to wonder where the hell do we belong

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A band without a country a band without a home

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And yet we’re always welcome no matter where we roam

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No one wants to claim us no one knows we’re there

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A band without a country is our cross to bear

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A band without a country a band without a home

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And yet we’re always welcome no matter where we roam

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No one wants to claim us no one knows we’re there

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A band without a country is our cross to bear