Away Home
And it’s away home, it’s away home
Now I’m heading back to Cornwall, ’cause Cornwall is my home
I am a Cornish fisherman
And I’ve been fishing all my life
Like my father before me
I’ve been sailing with the tides
The village would go hungry
If the herring’s hard to get
There’ll be no heading back to Newlyn
Till we’ve hauled in these nets
(Chorus)
I am a Cornish sailor
The wind and waves are in my soul
Like my father before me
The far horizon was my goal
From Cornwall down to China
I have sailed the seven seas
Now I’m heading back to Charlestown
Cause now it’s time for me
(Chorus)
I am a Cornish working man and I’ve laboured all me life
Like my father before me I’ve toiled day & night
I’ve split St. Breward granite and I laid the Wenford rail
I built the Liskeard viaducts, Ha! And I’ve been in Bodmin Jail
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We are Cornish emigrants now thirty million strong
Who left the shores of Cornwall & settled far beyond
Built Commonwealths & families in many distant parts
Still we will die as Cornishmen with Cornwall in our hearts
And it’s away home, it’s away home
Now I’m heading home to Cornwall, ‘cause Cornwall is my home
(Repeat)
(A capella chorus)
And it’s away home, away home
Now I’m heading home to Cornwall ‘cause Cornwall is my home