Bantry Girl's Lament Lyrics

You may travel from Clare, to the county KildareFrom Dublin right down to MacroomBut where would you see a fine widow like meBiddy Mulligan, the pride of the CoombeI'm a buxom fine...Read Full Lyrics

By Clyde's bonnie banks as I sadly did wanderAmong the pit heaps as evening grew nigh.I spied a young maiden all dressed in deep mourningA weeping and wailing with many a sigh.I st...Read Full Lyrics

Down in Bombo LaneThere lives a big fat womanAnd if you want to know her nameYou have to pay a shillingSoldiers, two and six,Sailors, two and a penny,Big fat men tw opounds tenLitt...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, I'm sailin' away my own true love,I'm sailin' away in the morning.Is there something I can send you from across the sea,From the place that I'll be landing?No, there's nothin' ...Read Full Lyrics

At Boulavogue as the sun was setting on the bright May meadows of ShelmaliarA rebel hand set the heather blazing and brought the neighbours from far and nearThen Father Murphy from...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, I won a hero's name with McAlpine and CostainWith Fitz Patrick, Murph Ash and the Wimp's gangI've been often on the road on me way to draw the doleWhen there's nothing left to ...Read Full Lyrics

Oh were I at the moss house, where the birds do increase,At the foot of Mount Leinster or some silent place,By the streams of Bunclody where all pleasures do meet,And all I would a...Read Full Lyrics

I am the man, the well-fed man in charge of the terrible knob.The most pleasing thing about it, it's almost a permanent job.When the atom war is over and the world is split in thre...Read Full Lyrics

I wish I was in CarrickfergusOnly for nights in BallygrandI would swim over the deepest oceanThe deepest ocean, my love to findBut the sea is wide and I cannot swim overAnd neither...Read Full Lyrics

As I walk the road from Killeshandra weary I sit downFor it's twelve long miles around the lake to get to Cavan TownThough Oughter and the road I go once seemed beyond compareNow I...Read Full Lyrics