To Some It Is

To some it is Melbourne, Tokyo or Rome For all of us there is some place we call home To some it is London, Paris or New York Home for me is near Millstreet Town County Cork To some it is Montreal, Baghdad or Timbuctoo Or Sydney or Rio or Kalamazoo, Beijing or Dublin, Brussels or Tralee Claraghatlea in Millstreet is homeplace to me From my first homeplace in Duhallow i may live far away And to many i would be a stranger there today But there i was born and spent my younger years And there i shed all of my fledgeling tears To some it is Capetown to some it is Tehran And to some it is Kabul in Afghanistan Wherever you go to on every street A person from some other place you will meet Our journey through life has an ending one day And home is where the heart is as some like to say And home to many is where they saw their first sunrise But that in itself is not any surprise.