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The Bare Trees (The Rocky Road To Dublin)

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Unfortunates, on the bare tree!         I mourn for ye         That have no place to house,         But on those winter-white cold boughs             To sit,             (How far apart ye sit)         And brood         In this wide, wintry solitude             That has no song at all to hearten it.         Fly away, little birds!             Fly away to Spain,         Stay there all the winter             Then come back again;         Come back in the summer             When the leaves are thick;         Little weeny cold birds             Fly away quick.

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