Use a diatonic harp in the key of G.

(verse 1)
It seems like o-only yesterday
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I sailed from out of Cork
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A wanderer from Erin's isle
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I landed in New York
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There wasn't a so-ul to greet me there
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A stranger on your shore
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But Irish luck was with me here
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And riches came galore
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And now that I'm going back again
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To dear old Erin's isle
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My friends will meet me on the pier
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And greet me with a smile
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Their faces, sure, I've almost forgot
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I've been so long away
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But me mother will introduce them all
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And this to me will say
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(chorus)
Shake hands with your U-uncle Mike, me boy
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And here is your sister, Kate
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And there's the girl you used to swing
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Down on the garden gate
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Shake hands with all of the neighbours
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And kiss the colleens all
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You're as welcome as the flowers in May
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To dear old Donnegal
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(verse 2)
They'll give a party when I go home
They'll come from near and far
They'll line the roads for miles and miles
With Irish jauntin' cars
The spirits'll flow and we'll be gay
We'll fill our hearts with joy
The piper'll play an Irish reel
To greet the Yankee boy
We'll dance and sing the whole night long
Such fun as never seen
The lads'll be decked in corduroy
The colleens wearin' green
There'll be thousands there that I never saw
I've been so long away
But me mother will introduce them all
And this to me will say

(chorus)

Meet Branigan, Fannigan, Milligan, Gilligan,
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Duffy, McCuffy, Malachy, Mahone,
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Rafferty, Lafferty, Donnelly, Connelly,
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Dooley, O'Hooley, Muldowney, Malone,
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Madigan, Cadigan, Lanihan, Flanihan,
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Fagan, O'Hagan, O'Hoolihan, Flynn,
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Shanihan, Manihan, Fogarty, Hogarty,
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Kelly, O'Kelly, McGuinness, McGuinn
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(chorus)

Shaggy

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Dave Gage