When my love said to me   Meet me down by the gallow tree   For it's sad news I bring   About this old town and all that it’s offering   Some say trouble's abound   Some day soon they’re gonna pull the old town down   One day we’ll return here,   When the Belfast child sings again      Brothers sisters where are you now   As I look for you right through the crowd   All my life here I’ve spent   With my faith in God the church and the government   But there’s sadness abound   Some day soon they’re gonna pull the old town down      One day we’ll return here,   When the Belfast child sings again   When the Belfast child sings again      Some come back Billy, won’t you come on home   Come back mary, you’ve been away so long   The streets are empty, and your mother’s gone   The girls are crying, it’s been oh so long   And your father’s calling, come on home   Won’t you come on home, won’t you come on home      Ome back people, you’ve been gone a while   And the war is raging, in the emerald isle   That’s flesh and blood man, that’s flesh and blood   All the girls are crying but all’s not lost      The streets are empty, the streets are cold   Won’t you come on home, won’t you come on home      The streets are empty   Life goes on      One day we’ll return here   When the Belfast child sings again   When the Belfast child sings again