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The Banks of the Liffey

From the crack of the dawn 'til the sundown at night
When the world shuts its eyes.
There's a life that goes further than living, A joy greater than glee.
From the wide pastures green to the tumbling sea on your coastline
You're a brother, a sister, a mother a father to me.

In the spring when you bloom I stand back and gaze at your beauty.
You're a flower so bright that no other could ever compare.
In the winter the clouds, they can't even cast a shadow.
On your body, no matter which way you face or turn.

From Cork out to Kerry, Dundalk to Derry, there's none so fair
In the land of the shamrock that's ours until the end of time.
Oh my name it is Dublin and I stand on the banks of the Liffey.
Just drifting through life as I wait for the tide to go by.

For every ill wind there's a new day on every horizon.
And if you should be cut down, I'll pick you up when you fall.
There's no sea so wide, or mountain so high it could stop me
From answering you plea, if ever you decide to call.

There's a church on the hill that looks over the graves of our heroes.
And I guess that our children will be buried there with them one day.
But if your sons were my sons, there'd never be a reason to part them.
They could all lay together forever 'neath a stone with one name.