Where are the children of Ireland from Cork to County Down? <br />They are scattered all around the World from London to Auckland Town <br />You will find them in Australia and Germany and France <br />They leave to seek their fortune and in life to take their chance. <br /> <br />Where are the poor of Ireland? they have wandered far away <br />You will find them in South America, Canada and the U S A <br />You will find them in Johannesburg, in Athens and in Rome <br />And they earn a better living far from Land that once was home. <br /> <br />Pity the mothers of Ireland half of their children live away <br />They are starved of opportunity so in Ireland they don't stay <br />And most of the wealth of Ireland still owned by the chosen few <br />And the poor keep getting poorer still so happen to be true. <br /> <br />Where are the children of Ireland? most of them in Ireland do not stay <br />You will find them in Australia, Britain and the U S A, <br />In Canada, South Africa and Germany and France <br />They leave to seek their fortune and in life to take their chance.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/where-are-the-children-of-ireland/
