BW11: Happy St. Patrick's Week!

We'll be celebrating St. Patrick's day all week long and instead of loading your wishlists down with more books, your mission is to find a book on your shelves that has a green cover or has green in the title. 

Sweetheart I’m bidding you fond farewell

Murmured a youth one day

I’m off to a new land my fortune to try

And I’m ready to sail away

Far away in Australia

Soon will fate be kind

And I will be ready to welcome the lass

The girl I left behind

Must we be parted?! his fairer one cried

I cannot let you go

Still I must leave you, the young man replied

But for only a while you know

Far away in Australia

Soon will fate be kind

And I will be ready to welcome the lass

The girl I left behind

Whether in success or failure

I will always be true

Proudly each day in that land far away

I’ll be building a home for you

Far away in Australia

Soon will fate be kind

And I will be ready to welcome the lass

The girl I left behind

Daily she waits at the old cottage gate

Watching the whole day through

Till that sweet message comes over the wave

And in the new world they’re joined as two

Far away in Australia

Soon will fate be kind

And I will be ready to welcome the lass

The girl I left behind”

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