if you gonna live in Brooklyn, New York.
It's like home for many Irish people.
You're not to eat on the boat,
It'll stop you getting so sick,
You can eat when you get there ;
in this moment,
You go straight down to your cabin,
and lock the bathroom door on your side,
when next door starts hammering,
you can negotiate.
When you get to Immigration,
keep your eyes wide open,
look as if you know where you're going.
You have to think like an American.
You'll feel so homesick that you'll want to die,
and there's nothing you can do about it apart from endure it.
But you will, and it won't kill you.
And one day the sun will come out,
and you might not even note it straight away,
it would be that faint.
And then you will catch yourself thinking about something,
or someone who has no connection with the past,
Someone who's only yours,
And you'll realise that this is where your life is.
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