The seagulls are calling and the wind is in the sails
And she's fast moving out over the sea
On a ship bound for St. Johns three thousand miles away
A human cargo; my comrades and me

Farewell my Green Valleys, God keep you the same     
?If only in my mind you will be
I'm sailing dark waters to far Amerikay
Never more my Green valleys to see

It hurts me to think of the things I left behind
And the famine has blackened our land
And to look now for something, that I may never find
 It's a problem that's now close at hand
 
Farewell my Green Valleys, God keep you the same     
?If only in my mind you will be
I'm sailing dark waters to far Amerikay
Never more my Green valleys to see

There's a fever a-raging and the wind has died away
And the journey may no longer be
And the plague is a shadow that lingers night and day
Warmer thoughts of Green Valleys I'll see

Farewell my Green Valleys, God keep you the same     
?If only in my mind you will be
I'm sailing dark waters to far Amerikay
Never more my Green valleys to see
Never more my Green valleys to see