Tom Flannery - Marie's Song lyrics

As I leave my love to cross the sea I curse the hate inside of me It burns like the fever I left behind And I cannot drive it from my mind I would gladly die for her emerald smile For one more kiss or one more mile We'd walk thru fields once called our own Now stained with blood they sit alone I saw her gazing across the sea And it lit a fire inside of me Her skin as soft as the harvest rain Rooted me to my home again Yet '47 came and stayed And the rents still must be paid We married under our family sky Kissed her gaunt cheeks with tears in my eye Her beauty soon relented As the hunger took its toll England k**ed what she could And the rest he stole So lament for me as I make my way And pray that I return someday With my family name left in good hands And soft rain falling on my land She still comes to me so young and pure And lay's me down until I'm sure That the love I left across the sea Will always live inside of me