The Flight of the Earls - Paddy Reilly

I can hear the bells of Dublin in this lonely waiting room

And the paper boys are singing in the rain

Not too long before they take us to the airport and the noise

to get on board a trans-Atlantic plane

We’ve got nothing left to stay for and no more left to say

and there isn’t any work for us to do

So farewell you boys and girls

another bloody flight of Earls

Our best asset is nore our best export too

It’s not murder, fear, nor famine that makes us leave this time

We’re not going to join MacAlpines Fusiliers

We’ve got brains and we’ve got vision, we’ve got education too

But we just can’t throw away these precious years

So we walk the streets of London and the streets of Baltimore

And we meet at night in several Boston bars

We’re the leaders of the future though we’re far away from home

And we dream of you beneath the Irish stars

As we look on Ellis Island and the Lady in the bay

And Manhatten turns to face another Sunday

We just think of what you’re doing to bring us all back home

As we look forward to another Monday

For it’s not the work that scares us, we don’t mind an honest job

And we know things will get better once again

So a thousand times adieu, we’ve got Bono and U2

All we’re missing is the Guinness and the rain

So switch off your new computers for the writing’s on the wall

We’re leaving as our fathers did before

Take a look at Dublin airport or the boat that leaves North Wall

There’ll be no youth unemployment anymore

For we’re over here in Queensland and in parts of New South Wales

We’re on the seas, the airways, and the trains

But if we see better days, those big airplanes go both ways

And we’ll all be coming back to you again

Yes we’ll all be coming back to you again