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[Verse 1]
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Oh listen today and a story I'll tell,
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In sadness and 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), 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 cyclone appeared it darkened the air,
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And the lightning flashed over the sky,
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And the children all cried, don't take us away,
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And spare us to go back home.

[Chorus]
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Rye Cove (Rye Cove), 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 3]
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There were mothers so dear and fathers the same,
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That came to this horrible scene,
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Searching and crying each found their own child,
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  Dying on a pillow of stone.

[Chorus]
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Rye Cove (Rye Cove), 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.