Author name: beerbellycollection

Oh there’s four that share the room And we work hard for the for the crack And getting up late on Sunday I never get to mass Chorus: It’s a long, long way

Buachaill ón Éirne mé’s bhréagfainn cailín deas óg Ní fhiarfainn bó spré léi, táimse féin saibhir go leor ‘S liom Corcaigh dá mhéad é, is dhá thaobh a’ ghl

In the jail that held McSwiney, in that prison where he died There lie two daughters of old Ireland and they fill my heart with pride For I know England wi

Oh Bridgit O’Malley, you left my heart shaken With a hopeless desolation, I’d have you to know It’s the wonders of admiration your quiet face has taken And

‘Tis of a brave young highwayman This story I will tell His name was Willie Brennan And in Ireland he did dwell It was on the Kilwood Mountain He commenced

Chorus As I went a walkin’ one mornin’ in spring I met with some travelers in an old country lane One was an old man, the second a maid And the third was a

As I walked through the Glenshane Pass I heard a young girl mourn ‘The boy form Tamlaghtduff ‘she cried ‘is two years dead and gone’ How my heart is torn a

Oh the Boys of Kilkenny are brave roaring blades And if ever they meet with the nice little maids They’ll kiss them and coax them and spend their money fre

Chorus: The smell on Patrick’s Bridge is wicked How does Faher Matthew stick it? Here’s up them all says the boys of Fair hill Come boys, spend a day with

Far away from the land of the Shamrock and heather In search of a living, as exiles we roam But whenever we chance to assemble together We think of the lan