"Back Home In Sweet Tralee" lyrics

Farewell to the green fields where I did roam
Likewise to the mountains and glens
To the lassie I love and my parents so dear
I never will see them again

Why did I leave my native home and cross the raging sea?
No more I'll hear the wee birds sing back home in sweet Tralee

Through wind and rain and a rolling sea
We suffered each lonely mile
We thought we would never see land again
And I dreamed about Erin's green isle

Why did I leave my native home and cross the raging sea?
No more I'll hear the wee birds sing back home in sweet Tralee

We landed safely in New York boys
And they soon had us working away
Building the railways and bridges and dams
We were working twelve hours a day

Why did I leave my native home and cross the raging sea?
No more I'll hear the wee birds sing back home in sweet Tralee

Now if good fortune should shine on me that
I might have money in store
I'll go back to the green rolling hills of Tralee
And then I will ramble no more

Why did I leave my native home and cross the raging sea?
No more I'll hear the wee birds sing back home in sweet Tralee