[00:19.45]We came across the ocean for the price on the passage
[00:24.53]Came across the ocean for one English pound
[00:29.19]We slept in the hay bed with the sheep and the shit, yeah
[00:33.77]We slept in the hay, me and three boys from our town
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[00:56.10]Hunger did surround us, came on like a black sea
[01:00.77]Everything it came for, rotten on the ground
[01:05.38]Food was had for money, and as we had none
[01:10.00]All the world around us came a-tumbling down
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[01:23.28]Four boys from Tralee going to a factory
[01:28.20]In a place a foreign man called Ontario
[01:32.98]Four boys from Tralee, forty days out on the sea
[01:37.22]Without home or family, nowhere left to go
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[02:04.95]One morning our boy Tommy lay dying beside me
[02:09.60]Cold and sick and dying and blue was what we found
[02:14.28]Before he took his last breath, the ship's sailors found him
[02:18.69]Before he took his last breath, they tossed him in to drown
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[02:41.00]If hunger makes you nothing, then, boy, I am nothing
[02:45.60]Just another hungry boy washed up on the sand
[02:50.24]Lucky boys who did survive the cruel deeds of cruel men
[02:54.82]Lived a short and lonely life in a foreign land
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[03:08.18]Four boys from Tralee going to a factory
[03:12.89]In a place a foreign man called Ontario
[03:17.60]Four boys from Tralee, forty days out on the sea
[03:22.11]One of them four boys was me, I wanted you to know