Not Homesick For Macroom

In his sunlit back garden roses are in bloom A long way far south of the Town of Macroom And the silver billed magpie sings on a gum tree In a beautiful place just a mile from the sea The nostalgia he once felt it is in decay For his old Hometown in Mid Cork from this Land far away Where he now is he is quite happy to stay I do love Australia he has been known to say Though he never fathered children or never had a wife He is quite contented in his lot in life In his early seventies his better days gone But for as long as he can live he will keep living on A long way far south of Hibernia's shore And his old Hometown he may see never more.