The Travelling People Lyrics

Come listen to my story, it's about a nice young manWhen the militia wasn't a wantin', he dealt in hawkin' twangHe loved a lovely maiden as fair as any midgeAnd she kept a traycle ...Read Full Lyrics

The wind does blow today, my love,A few small drops of rain;Never had I had but one true-love,In cold grave she is lain.I'll do as much for my true-love,As any young man may;I'll s...Read Full Lyrics

For Fun and Diversion we have met together,I tell you from Waterford hither we came,We crossed the Big Ocean in dark stormy weather,Our pockets were light and our Hearts were the s...Read Full Lyrics

And if, when all a vigil keepThe West's asleep! the West's asleep!Alas! and well may Erin weepThat Connacht lies in slumber deepBut, hark! a voice like thunder spakeThe West's awak...Read Full Lyrics

And it's three score and ten boys and menWere lost from Grimsby TownFrom Yarmouth down to ScarboroughMany hundreds more were drownedTheir herring craft and their trawlersTheir fish...Read Full Lyrics

There were three lovely lasses from Kimmage,From Kimmage, from Kimmage, from KimmageAnd whenever there with a bit of a scrimmageSure I was the toughest of allSure I was the toughes...Read Full Lyrics

The old ways are changing you cannot denyThe day of the traveler is overThere's nowhere to go and there's nowhere to bideSo farewell to the life of the roverChorus:Goodbye to the t...Read Full Lyrics

The age of the wolf is the age of the swordSon of the earth, father of despair, lurkingAnd ever searching to end his thirstStrength reborn in the streams of cold bloodSon of the ea...Read Full Lyrics

I kept the sounds to myselfAnd then I saw howI needed, how I'd driftedIt was all in the pastI survivedThe dreadful hoursI dug the graveI climbed back outWaited oh so longDreamt of ...Read Full Lyrics

In the court of rose and lily,I see your face appear.And though the night is chilly,I wait for you to be near.The dreams and schemes of all mankindHave all been laid to waste.But i...Read Full Lyrics