Boys from Tralee by Patty Griffin
Boys from Tralee by Patty Griffin

Boys from Tralee

Patty Griffin * Track #10 On Patty Griffin

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Boys from Tralee by Patty Griffin

Release Date
Fri Mar 08 2019
Performed by
Patty Griffin
Produced by
Craig Ross
Writed by
Patty Griffin
About

“Boys from Tralee” is the tenth track on Patty Griffin’s self-titled tenth studio album.

The song recounts the story of her grandfather’s immigration from Ireland to Canada.

Boys from Tralee Lyrics

[Verse 1]
We came across the ocean for the price on the passage
Came across the ocean for one English pound
We slept in the hay bed with the sheep and the shit, yeah
We slept in the hay, me and three boys from our town

[Verse 2]
Hunger did surround us, came on like a black sea
Everything it came for, rotten on the ground
Food was had for money, and as we had none
All the world around us came a-tumbling down

[Chorus 1]
Four boys from Tralee going to a factory
In a place a foreign man called Ontario
Four boys from Tralee, forty days out on the sea
Without home or family, nowhere left to go

[Verse 3]
One morning our boy Tommy lay dying beside me
Cold and sick and dying and blue was what we found
Before he took his last breath, the ship's sailors found him
Before he took his last breath, they tossed him in to drown

[Verse 4]
If hunger makes you nothing, then, boy, I am nothing
Just another hungry boy washed up on the sand
Lucky boys who did survive the cruel deeds of cruel men
Lived a short and lonely life in a foreign land

[Chorus 2]
Four boys from Tralee going to a factory
In a place a foreign man called Ontario
Four boys from Tralee, forty days out on the sea
One of them four boys was me, I wanted you to know

Boys from Tralee Q&A

Who wrote Boys from Tralee's ?

Boys from Tralee was written by Patty Griffin.

Who produced Boys from Tralee's ?

Boys from Tralee was produced by Craig Ross.

When did Patty Griffin release Boys from Tralee?

Patty Griffin released Boys from Tralee on Fri Mar 08 2019.

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