Erin Grá Mo Chroí

DESCRIPTION: "At the setting of the sun When my long day’s work was done... I sat down upon a stone To gaze upon the streets of New York." "Erin grá mo chroí, You’re the dear old land to me." The exiles in America will remember their home far away and hope to return
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1964 (collected from Joe Heaney)
KEYWORDS: home Ireland exile emigration
FOUND IN:
Roud #14056
RECORDINGS:
Christine Eddy Brennan, "Erin Grá Ma Chrói" (Piotr-Archive #1265, recorded 06/04/2025)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
My Own Native Land Far Away
File: DPio1265

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