Lyrics

County Antrim
© 2003 Music by Lawrence Stewart Maconaghy BMI
Lyrics by Lawrence Stewart Maconaghy & Gerald Clark



One day a young man left the old country
To find a better way
He left his possessions and family behind him
And said he would come back some day

He made a new life for himself in his new land
By doing the best that he could
He knew he would never return to his homeland
But he never stopped wishing he could

He wanted his children to see County Antrim
And look off the hills far away
And think of their father who left his own county
And said he would come back someday

The years came and went and that young man did prosper
He married and his children played
As his children grew up, he made sure that he told them
Of the hills in his home far away

He wanted his children to see County Antrim
And look off the hills far away
And think of their father who left his own county
And said he would come back someday

Now I tell my children of the man from Ireland
And the families that came in between
I wonder if they understand what has happened
In a land that they still haven't seen


Now I can't do much about ancient injustice
And the power that politics plays
But I'm feeling an urge to return to the country
And the land where my ancestors stayed

Now I want my children to see County Antrim
And look off the hills far away
And think of the old man who left his own county
And said he would come back someday

Now I want my children to see County Antrim