The heavens roared and o' the heavens roared
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And the drowning of a nation commenced
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But now no wave impedes or flows
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With the tears of young paddy's laments
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Wipe the blood from you lip
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With the flesh of your hand
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There’s no thorn in the side
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Left to grow
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So lets cherish the names
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that were lost for an age
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with the ruin now the suffer must go
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where traditions they blend
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lives a home on the mend
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the grass glistens now
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for all eyes
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so let's sever the shame
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we have come to reclaim
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with the waters retreat
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feel the shore
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when the red rose paled
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lay a thousand graves many more
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though their ghosts still haunt
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for the day we've come to live for
|
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don't look back
|
for what's dead now is saved
|
the exiled are home
|
where their souls were kept safe
|
take me back
|
on the crest of a wave
|
no more tears for young paddy's lament
|
no more tears no more paddy's
|
lament
|
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Rip the grief from it's heart
|
there’s no sorrow tonight
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for now once banished
|
dreams sleep divine
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where the silence you hear
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is the prosper we share
|
the only blade
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is a razor sharp smile
|
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still a church bell rings
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to collect the sins that still roam
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But the only thing lost is the pain
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When nothing was more
|
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don't look back
|
for what's dead now is saved
|
the exiled are home
|
where their souls were kept safe
|
take me back
|
on the crest of a wave
|
no more tears for young paddy's lament
|
no more tears no more paddy's
|
lament
|
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Grab the leaf of the branch
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from the tree in it's ground
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where these roots claim the earth
|
many toiled
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to a land that now stands
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under no ones' command
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and her beauty let no man destroy
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so remember the gun
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and the damage it done
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the last drop has been spilled
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for you and I
|
let there be no despair
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For the gloom we once shared
|
Brush the tear from the eye that still shines
|
|
When the red rose paled
|
lay a thousand graves many more
|
though their ghosts still haunt
|
for the day we've come to live for
|
|
don't look back
|
for what's dead now is saved
|
the exiled are home
|
where their souls were kept safe
|
take me back
|
on the crest of a wave
|
no more tears for young paddy's lament
|
|
don't look back
|
for what's dead now is saved
|
the exiled are home
|
where their souls were kept safe
|
take me back
|
on the crest of a wave
|
no more tears for young paddy's lament
|
no more tears for young paddy's lament
|
no more tears no more paddy's
|
lament
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(No More) Paddy's Lament
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| Flogging Molly |
