Rye Cove

	  		
Intro: 
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verse 1 
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Oh listen today to the story I'll tell, 
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Tis saddened with 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, 
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The place of my childhood and home, 
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Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam, 
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But now it's so silent and lone.
 


verse 2 
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When the great storm appeared it darkened the air, 
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And the lightning flashed over the sky, 
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Then the children all cried, don't take us away, 
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But spare us to go back home. 


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Rye Cove, Rye Cove , 
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The place of my childhood and home, 
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Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam, 
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But now it's so silent and lone.
 


Instrumental 

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verse 3 
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For the mothers so sad and fathers the same, 
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They came to this horrible scene, 
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Then searching and crying each found their own child, 
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Dying on a pillow of stone. 


verse 4 
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Lord give us a home far beyond the blue skies, 
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Where storms and cyclones are unknown, 
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And there will we stand and gladly clasp hands 
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With our children in the heavenly home. 

 
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Rye Cove, Rye Cove , 
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The place of my childhood and home, 
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Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam, 
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But now it's so silent and lone.