Andrew Lloyd Webber — Gods Own Country

[MARY] Where I live is God's own country Though it's dirtier and poorer than he planned Broken windows, broken lives Jobless husbands, weeping wives It may not look like God's own country But God is love, and I know he loves this land Though it's ragged and it's worn It's the place where I was born The beauty lies within in God's own country It sleeps beneath the soil and 'neath the sand It's our fathers and mothers Our heroes and martyrs For God's in the people And people are the land Each new generation Will rebuild the nation That's how it's been Since our history began [PROTESTANT GIRL] In the darkness of the night I hear it singing The whispering of the wind and rain, it's song [BOTH] A sublime eternal tune To the rhythms of the moon These ancient chords were formed in the beginning And they sing to me, "My country, right or wrong" These are the songs we always sang No one knows when they began [MARY] This fair land is God's own country And it's Catholic and Republican and free [PROTESTANT GIRL] It's a Protestant land made by God's perfect hand And a Protestant country it will always be [BOTH] For Ireland is mine And is so for all time From the Atlantic Ocean Unto the Irish Sea Where I live is God's own country I was born here, and this land belongs to me It's in our blood and in our bones It's the place that we call home The beauty lies within in God's own country It sleeps beneath the soil and 'neath the sand It's our mother and fathers Our heroes and martyrs For God's in the people And people are the land Each new generation Will rebuild the nation That's how it's been Since our history began Where I live is God's own country Though it's dirtier and poorer than he planned Though it's ragged and it's worn It's the place where I was born