March 17, 2014 9:39AM 

# The Green Fields of America 

By [Walter Olson](https://www.cato.org/people/walter-olson) 

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“With no taxes or tithes there to devour up your wages/​When you’re on the green fields of America.” A classic emigration song for St. Patrick’s Day, sung [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD89a9xkMGk) by Kevin Conneff of the Chieftains, and from the [repertoire](http://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/thegreenfieldsofamerica.html) of the great Paddy Tunney.

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[Trade Policy](https://www.cato.org/trade-policy), [Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies](https://www.cato.org/herbert-stiefel-center-trade-policy-studies) 

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