"Ferry Home" genre: Folk
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	About Irish men going home through Holyhead on the ferry.
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	Story Behind the Song I used to live in Holyhead, but it was only many years later that I went to Dublin on the ferry. There was live music. Everyone gathered round the loading well to listen. I could imagine what it must be like to go home to Ireland, after many years away. Lyrics Ferry home The ferry sailed from Holyhead full crowded round for Christmas with boys of forty-one as bright-eyed children all going home to keep the faith with mothers and their kith their kin and sundry others that they drink with now and then home as children travelling grown men The ferry bar was crowded out they celebrated Christmas as if no time would do except the present then flooded down the corridors with mother in their eyes with memory of others that they drink with now and then home as children travelling grown men The loading well was ringing loud with music meant for Christmas with fiddle and with song to cheer the many who ambled round with drink in hand and mother on their mind and memory of others that they drink with now and then home as children travelling grown men There never was a time like this nor better time than Christmas as music draws the mind and fills the features of children coming home at last to mothers left behind to memory of others that they drink with now and then home as children travelling grown men Copyright 1995 Charlotte Peters Rock

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