We Sold Our Homesteads Lyrics - Falconer

We sold our homesteads and started on our way 

Just like the birds will fly when autumn is here to stay 

One day they will return, come spring again that's when 

But we will never see our native country again 

At first we traveled through the English countryside 

On tracks and on wagons, as quickly as birds would fly 

It was a lovely sight to see the land at last 

But all the glorious sights kept flashing by too fast 

The glorious sights kept flashing by too fast 

And later when we came to Liverpudlian bay 

The tears of regret finally started to have their say 

The hearts then started burning in each and everyone 

We only talked of Sweden that used to be our home 

We all were packed together in one unhealthy cave 

It was as if we'd stepped into an open grave 

The food that we had brought from blessed Swedish land 

Was suddenly forbidden and taken from our hand 

It was forbidden and taken from our hand 

And when we had been sailing for just a week or two 

A horrid kind of darkness was clouding our view 

We couldn't see each other and hardly breathe or walk 

It was a gruesome anguish for all people aboard 

The air was filled with hunger and drenched in wretched cries 

The howling and the noises would pierce right through the skies 

And death became the ruler that forced us to our knees 

The dead were buried in the horrid fathom of the seas 

They were buried in the fathom of the seas