Take Me Home To Mayo (The Ballad of Michael Gaughan)

Take Me Home to Mayo (Michael Gaughan), also known as The Ballad of Michael Gaughan by Seamus Robinson, served up by the band Switchback, voted the Top Irish Duo by the Irish Music Association in 2008. This impromptu performance was recorded in 2007 in County Mayo, Ireland and features Marty McCormack and Brian FitzGerald at Marty's cousin Seamus' cottage near Ballybrehony in County Mayo, Ireland.

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TAKE ME HOME TO MAYO (BALLAD OF MICHAEL GAUGHAN)
By SEAMUS ROBINSON 1974
( for Michael Gaughan who died on hunger strike in a
British prison on the 3rd of June 1974. His final request
was: "Take me home to Mayo."

( CHORUS )
Take me home to Mayo, across the Irish Sea;
Home to dear old Mayo, where once I roamed so free.
Take me home to Mayo, there let my body lie;
Home at last in Mayo, beneath an Irish sky.

My name is Michael Gaughan, from Ballina I came;
I saw my people suffering and swore to break their chain --
I raised the flag in England, prepared to fight or die --
Far away from Mayo, beneath an Irish sky.

(CHORUS)
Take me home to Mayo, across the Irish Sea;
Home to dear old Mayo, where once I roamed so free.
Take me home to Mayo, there let my body lie;
Home at last in Mayo, beneath an Irish sky.

My body cold and hungry, in Parkhurst Gaol I lie;
For loving of my country, on hunger strike I die --
I have just one last longing, I pray you'll not deny --
Bury me in Mayo, beneath an Irish sky.

(CHORUS)
Take me home to Mayo, across the Irish Sea;
Home to dear old Mayo, where once I roamed so free.
Take me home to Mayo, there let my body lie;
Home at last in Mayo, beneath an Irish sky.


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