Paddy Reilly singing Flight of Earls, written by Liam Reilly. Recorded on "Live At Three", 1989.
Title: FLIGHT OF EARLS
Artist: PADDY REILLY
Label: LUNAR
Date of entry: 02.06.1988
Highest Placement: 1
Weeks in the Irish Charts: 17.
Flight of Earls (lyrics).
I can hear the bells of Dublin in this lonely waiting room
the paper boys are singing in the rain
Not too long before they take us to the airport and the noise
To get on board a trans-Atlantic plane
We've got nothing left to stay for, we've got nomore left to say
And there isn't any work for us to do
So farewell you boys and girls
Another bloody flight of Earls
Our best asset is our best export too
It's not murder, fear, nor famine that makes us leave this time
We're not going to join MacAlpines Fusiliers
We've got brains and we've got vision, we've got education too
and waste away the precious years
So we walk the streets of London and the streets of Baltimore
And we meet at night in several Boston bars
We're the leaders of the future and we're far away from home
And we dream of you beneath the Irish stars
take a look at Ellis Island and the Lady in the bay
As Manhatten turns to face another Sunday
We just wonder what you're doing to bring us all back home
As we look forward to another Monday
For it's not the work that scares us, we don't mind an honest job
And we know things will get better once again
So a thousand times adieu, we've got Bono and U2
All we're missing is the Guinness and the rain
So switch off your new computers for the writing's on the wall
We're leaving as our fathers left before
Take a look at Dublin airport or the boat that leaves North Wall
There'll be no youth unemployment anymore
For we're over here in Queensland and in parts of New South Wales
We're on the seas, the airways, and the trains
But if we see better days, those big airplanes go both ways
And we'll all be coming back to you again
Yes we'll all be coming back to you again.