The Chieftains - North Amerikay lyrics

Ye lovers all both great and small, who dwell in Ireland Oh I pray you pay attention, whilst I my pen command It was my father's anger that drove my love away But I still have hopes we'll meet again in North Amerikay My love he was fair and handsome and to him I gave my heart Ah but little was our notion that we would ever part It was in my father's garden, that this flower it did decay But I still have hopes t'wil' bloom again, in North Amerikay Now I did not want for money, kind fortune on me shone So out of my father's castle I took 300 pounds It was in the town of Belfast, my pa**age I did pay And then set sail across the sea to far Amerikay Now the captain's wife was kind to me, as you may understand And she kept me in her cabin until we reached dry land It was in the town of Quebec we landed on the Cay But I knew not where to seek my love in all Amerikay Now I being sick and sore and tired, well I went into an inn And it was there I met my William, the lad I loved, within He took me gently by the hand and to me he did say Oh I never thought I'd see your face in North Amerikay Now I hear this couple have got wed as you may understand And I hear they live quite happily in a town they call Saint Johns And the money that she took from home, well in gold she paid it down And they think no more of Ireland nor Ennisk**in Town