[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:46.96]Oh  Father dear  we'll ofttimes heard you speak of Erin's Isle [01:02.48]Her lofty scenes  her valleys green  her mountains rude and wild [01:15.46]They say it tis a lovely land  where in a saint might dwell [01:28.82]Oh why did you abandon it  the reason to me tell [01:45.60]Oh son I loved my native land  with energy and pride [02:00.96]'Til a blight came over on my croes  my sheep my cattle died [02:14.46]My rent and taxes were so high  I could not them redeem [02:27.92]And that's the cruel reason that I left old Skibbereen [02:42.52]Oh  when well do I remember song  that bleak December day [02:57.52]When the sheriff and the landlord came  to drive us all away [03:09.61]They set my car take you roof on fire [03:15.41]With their cursed English spleen [03:21.79]And that's another reason that I left old Skibbereen [03:36.24]Oh your mother too  God rest her soul [03:43.73]Lay on the snowy ground [03:50.74]She fainted in her anguish  seeing the desolation all round [04:04.10]She never rose  but passed away  from life to immortal dream [04:17.77]I'm found a quiet grave  my boy  in dear old Skibbereen [04:33.52]Oh father dear  we'll the day will come  when answer to the call [04:46.11]All Irish men of Freedom Stern  will rally one and all [04:57.51]And I'll be the man to lead the band  beneath the flag of green [05:09.02]And loud and high we'll raise the cry [05:16.57]Revenge for Skibbereen