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    Oh listen today in the story I'll tell,
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    in sadness and tear dimmed eyes,
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    of a dreadful cyclone that came this way,
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    and blew our schoolhouse away.

     C                    G
Rye Cove (Rye Cove), Rye Cove (Rye Cove),
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the place of my childhood and home,
      G                   C              G
where life's early morn I once loved to roam,
                 D          G
but now it's so silent and lone.

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              G                    C           G
    When the cyclone appeared, it darkened the air,
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    yet the lightnings flashed over the sky,
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    and the children all cried, “Don't take us away,
                    D        G
    and spare us to go back home !"

     C                    G
Rye Cove (Rye Cove), Rye Cove (Rye Cove),
                               D
the place of my childhood and home,
      G                   C              G
where life's early morn I once loved to roam,
                 D          G
but now it's so silent and lone.

                G                   C           G
    There were mothers so dear and fathers the same
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    that came to this terrible scene,
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    searching and crying each found their own child,
                D          G
    dying on a pillow of stone.

     C                    G
Rye Cove (Rye Cove), Rye Cove (Rye Cove),
                               D
the place of my childhood and home,
      G                   C              G
where life's early morn I once loved to roam,
                 D          G
but now it's so silent and lone.

        G                    C            G
    Oh give us a home far beyond the blue sky,
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    where storms and cyclones are unknown,
          G                            C              G
    and there by life's strand we'll clasp this glad hand,
                            D        G
    like children in their heavenly home.

     C                    G
Rye Cove (Rye Cove), Rye Cove (Rye Cove),
                               D
the place of my childhood and home,
      G                   C              G
where life's early morn I once loved to roam,
                 D          G
but now it's so silent and lone.

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