# Farewell to Erin

- Music: Charlotte Alington Barnard (died 1869)
- Words: Charlotte Alington Pye (died 1869)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6623221

## The words

Ah! but  
Yet where -  
would seem Erin to me.  
I’m sailin’ away o’er the green sea tomorrow,  
I’m leavin’ the land o’ the shamrock behind;  
From Father and Mother I’m partin’ in sorrow,  
And och! I’ve a cravin’ to alter my mind.  
But yet could I bear ye to sail off without me,  
And didn’t I pro mise a true wife to be;  
Ah! I tell them I’ll never forsake ye or  
doubtye, Whereever thou art, would seem Erin  
to me.  
But Dermot, remember it’s all I am leavin’,  
And sure you’ll be lovin’ and tender as now;  
I know in my heart you would ne’er be deceivin’  
The blessin’ o’ Heaven you call’d on the vow.  
But, darlin’, my tears have been bitter and  
many, It’s nigh upon breakin’,  
my heart seems to be, Ah! but still I’ll be  
thinkin’ I’m back in Kilkenny,  
Whereever thou art would seem Erin to me.  
Fare– well to the land o' my heart’s best  
affections, May angels be watchin’ the cabin  
I love, And bring to my dreams the belov’d  
resolution, Tho’ far from the mountain and  
valley I rove. Some day we’ll re,turn,  
if kind Heaven be willin’, Then happy my  
heart nigh to burstin’ will be, Yet wheree’er  
we may roam, and tho’ strange be the dwellin’,  
Whereever thou art would seem Erin to me.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).