My Own Native Land-Cherish The Ladies

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[00:00.00]My Own Native Land - Cherish The Ladies
[00:00.78]There's a dear little isle in the Western Ocean
[00:14.93]It's an Island of purity holy and grand
[00:25.31]It's name fills it's daughters and sons with emotion
[00:37.51]When they are heard on a far distant strand
[00:48.28]'Tis Ireland my country the birthplace of heroes
[01:00.08]The home of the patriot warrior and sage
[01:09.88]Of bards and of chieftains whose names live in story
[01:21.62]May they live forever on history's page
[01:34.50]You once were a proud and a glorious nation
[01:45.71]Your name and your fame were known all over the world
[01:55.91]'Til misfortune came over you and sad desolation
[02:08.27]Your emerald banner in slavery lay unfurled
[02:22.07]They tortured your children they spoiled your green banner
[02:33.40]They tried to exterminate you long long long ago
[02:43.62]But the Irish are somehow like wild creeping flowers
[02:55.71]The faster you pluck them the quicker they seem to grow
[03:09.31]I love every blade of grass green on your mountains
[03:21.12]Every leaf on your tree and every rock upon your strand
[03:31.13]I love your green valleys and murmuring fountains
[03:42.99]I love you acushla my own dear native land