Barbara Dickson - Thousands Are Sailing lyrics

You brave Irish heroes where'er you may be I pray stand a moment and listen to me Your sons and fair daughters are now going away And thousands are sailing to America CHORUS: So good luck to those people and safe may they land They are leaving their country for a far distant strand They are leaving old Ireland, no longer can stay And thousands are sailing to America The night before leaving they are bidding goodbye And it's early next morning their heart gives a sigh They do kiss their mothers and then they will say Farewell, dear old father, we must now go away CHORUS Oh I pity the mother that rears up the child And likewise the father who labours and toils To try and support them he will work night and day And when they are reared up they will go away CHORUS Oh thousand are sailing to America