Cyclone Of Raye Cove

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    Oh listen today in the story I'll tell,
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    in sadness and tear dimmed eyes,
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    of a dreadful cyclone that came this way,
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    and blew our schoolhouse away.

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Rye Cove (Rye Cove), Rye Cove (Rye Cove),
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the place of my childhood and home,
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where life's early morn I once loved to roam,
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but now it's so silent and lone.

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    When the cyclone appeared, it darkened the air,
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    yet the lightnings flashed over the sky,
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    and the children all cried, “Don't take us away,
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    and spare us to go back home !"

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Rye Cove (Rye Cove), Rye Cove (Rye Cove),
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the place of my childhood and home,
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where life's early morn I once loved to roam,
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but now it's so silent and lone.

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    There were mothers so dear and fathers the same
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    that came to this terrible scene,
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    searching and crying each found their own child,
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    dying on a pillow of stone.

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Rye Cove (Rye Cove), Rye Cove (Rye Cove),
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the place of my childhood and home,
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where life's early morn I once loved to roam,
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but now it's so silent and lone.

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    Oh give us a home far beyond the blue sky,
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    where storms and cyclones are unknown,
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    and there by life's strand we'll clasp this glad hand,
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    like children in their heavenly home.

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Rye Cove (Rye Cove), Rye Cove (Rye Cove),
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the place of my childhood and home,
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where life's early morn I once loved to roam,
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but now it's so silent and lone.

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