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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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