歌词
Mary Clare Malloy (American Wake) - Tom Russell/Dolores Keane
作词:Tom Russell
作曲:Tom Russell
My name is Mary Clare Malloy I was born in County Cork
At 18 years of age I sailed for the shores of old New York
With 700 picture brides torn tween hope and fear
At last we spied Manhattan and the famous Isle of Tears
My first taste of the New World turned to ashes very fast
The ones who entered freely were from first and second class
We steerage folk remained on board as if we were exiles
The captain turned the ship around and sailed to Ellis Isle
We disembarked and stood in line with chalk marks on our coats
X for mental illness if E back on the boat
They asked us what our breeding was could we read or write
The sound of women weeping set the dormitories at night
My best friend was deported back to a poor Killea home
Another sent to Swinburne Isle died of cholera alone
The rest of us were shipped to trains bound for Midwest states
To wild and stormy prairie lands and our prospective mates
He's American primitive man
In an American primitive land
Irish eyes and calloused hands
American primitive man
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