Falconer - We Sold Our Homesteads lyrics

We sold our homesteads and started on our way
Just like the birds will fly when
Autumn is here to stay
One day they will return, come spring again
That's when but we will never see
Our native country again

At first we travelled through
The English countryside
On tracks and on wagons as
Quickly as birds would fly
It was a lovely sight to see the land at last
But all the glorious sights kept
Flashing by too fast
The glorious sights kept flashing by too fast
And later when we came to Liverpuddlian bay
The tears of regret finally started
To have their say
The hearts then started burning
In each and everyone
We only talked of Sweden that
Used to be our home

We all were packed together
In one unhealthy cave
It was as if we'd stepped into an open grave
The food that we had brought
From blessed Swedish land
Was suddenly forbidden and taken
From our hand
It was forbidden and taken from our hand

And when we had been sailing for
Just a week or two a horrid kind of darkness
Was clouding our view
We couldn't see each other and
Hardly breathe or walk
It was a gruesome anguish
For all people aboard

The air was filled with hunger
And drenched in wretched cries
The howling and the noises would
Pierce right through the skies
And death became the ruler that
Forced us to our knees
The dead were buried in the
Horrid fathom of the seas
They were buried in the fathom of the seas