it was just a year ago today I left old Erin’s Islemy heart was throbbin in the soft light of my colleen’s smilein all my dreams I seem to hearher sweet voice soft and lowI know she’s waiting where we said goodbye in old Mayo for two irish eyes are shiningand an Irish heart is…
Month: August 2022
Some say the devil is dead
Some say the devil is dead, the devil is dead, the devil is deadSome say the devil is dead and buried in KillarneyMore say he rose again, more say he rose again, more say he rose againAnd joined the British armyFeed the pigs and milk the cow, milk the cow, milk the cowFeed the pigs…
Come Out Ye Black & Tans
Song by The Wolfe Tones I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums the beatAnd the loving English feet they went all over usAnd every single night when me da’ would came home tightHe’d invite the neighbors out with this chorus Come out ye black and tans, come out and fight me…
Fields of Athenry
By a lonely prison wallI heard a young girl calling“Michael, they have taken you awayFor you stole Trevelyan’s cornSo the young might see the mornNow a prison ship lies waiting in the bay” Low lie the fields of AthenryWhere once we watched the small free birds flyOur love was on the wing we had dreams…
Whiskey in the Jar
As I was a goin’ over the far famed Kerry mountainsI met with captain Farrell and his money he was countingI first produced me pistol and I then produced me rapierSaying “Stand and deliver” for he were a bold deceiver Mush-a ring dumb-a do dumb-a daWhack fall the daddy-o, whack fall the daddy-oThere’s whiskey in…
Delaney’s Donkey
Now Delaney had a donkey that everyone admiredTemporarily lazy and permanently tiredA leg at every corner balancing his headAnd a tail to let you know which end he wanted to be fed Riley slyly said, “We’ve underrated it, why not train it?”Then they took a ragThey rubbed it, scrubbed it, they oiled and embrocated itGot…