[Verse]
The seagulls are calling, the wind is in the sail,
And she's fast moving out to the sea,
On a ship bound for St. John's,
Three thousand miles away,
A human cargo, my comrades and me.

[Chorus]
Fare thee well, green valleys,
God keep you the same,
If in only my mind you'll be,
For I'm sailing dark waters to far Americay,
Never more my green valleys to see.

[Verse]
It hurts me to think of the things I left behind,
Though the famine has blackened the land,
And to look now for something,
That I may never find,
Is a problem that's now close at hand.

[Chorus]
Fare thee well, green valleys,
God keep you the same,
If in only my mind you'll be,
For I'm sailing dark waters to far Americay,
Never more my green valleys to see.

[Verse]
There's a fever a raging and the winds have died away,
And the journey will no longer be,
Though the plague is a shadow,
That lingers night and day,
Former thoughts of green valleys I see.

[Chorus]
Fare thee well, green valleys,
God keep you the same,
If in only my mind you'll be,
For I'm sailing dark waters to far Americay,
Never more my green valleys to see,
Never more my green valleys to see.