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[Verse 1]
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Oh listen today to the story I'll tell,
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Tis saddened with tear dimmed eyes,
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Of a dreadful cyclone that came this way,
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And blew our schoolhouse away.

[Chorus]
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Rye Cove, Rye Cove,
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The place of my childhood and home,
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Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam,
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But now it's so silent and lone.


[Verse 2]
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When the great storm appeared it darkened the air,
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And the lightning flashed over the sky,
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Then the children all cried, don't take us away,
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But spare us to go back home.


[Chorus]
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Rye Cove, Rye Cove ,
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The place of my childhood and home,
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Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam,
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But now it's so silent and lone.


[Instrumental]

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[Verse 3]
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For the mothers so sad and fathers the same,
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They came to this horrible scene,
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Then searching and crying each found their own child,
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Dying on a pillow of stone.


[Verse 4]
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Lord give us a home far beyond the blue skies,
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Where storms and cyclones are unknown,
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And there will we stand and gladly clasp hands
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With our children in the heavenly home.


[Chorus]
    F         C
Rye Cove, Rye Cove ,
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The place of my childhood and home,
         C                   F             C
Where in life's early morn I once loved to roam,
    C           G          C
But now it's so silent and lone.