[Verse]
Like chaff in the wind, we were cast from our shores,
As emigrants, as exiles, as convicts, as slaves,
For hundreds of years, Ireland never saw peace,
From the land that they loved, they were forced o'er the seas.

As soldiers of fortune in the Irish brigades,
All our regiments condemned to the wars and the graves,
The soldiers, the sailors, the wild geese and weavers,
The rebels, the heroes, the helpless, the brave.

[Chorus]
We are the Irish, all over the world,
My heart is with you, may the road rise to meet you,
With God's hand to keep you from harm, I will be with you always, all the days,
Till the sun and the moon and the stars in the sky, cease to shine.

[Post-Chorus]
Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye,
Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye.

[Verse]
Oh, they left their homes, so eerie and still,
Generations were forced from the land that they loved,
Their commerce all stifled, their industries run down,
By taxes and landlords and governments that ruled.

From wars and disease, as religious refugees,
Are fleeing the cruel penal laws and decrees,
The hollers of hunger has torn us asunder,
The young and the old are all scattered and gone.

[Chorus]
We are the Irish, all over the world,
My heart is with you, may the road rise to meet you,
With God's hand to keep you from harm, I will be with you always, all the days,
Till the sun and the moon and the stars in the sky, cease to shine.

[Post-Chorus]
Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye,
Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, aye.