Besedila

It’s of a gentlemen soldier as a sentry he did stand He saluted the fair maid be a wavin’ of the hand So boldly then he kissed and he passed it off as a jo

As I rode down to Galway town to seek for recreation On the seventeenth of August me mind being elevated There were multitudes assembled with their tickets

Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty How he fell with a roll and a rumble Curled up like Lord Oliver Crumble At the butt of the magazine wall the magazine w

An Ulster man I an proud to say from the Antrim Glens I come Although I labored by the sea I followed fife and drum I have heard the martial tramp of men;

I know my love by his way of walking And I know my love by his way of talking And I know my love in a jacket blue And if my love leaves me what will I do C

Come the day And come the hour Come the power and the glory We have come to answer Our country’s call… From the four proud provinces of Ireland (chorus)

‘Twas a morning in July, I was walking to Tipperary When I heard a battle cry from the mountains over head As I looked up in the sky I saw an Irish soldier

If you want your child to grow Your child to grow, your child to grow If you want your child to grow Give him a jar of porter Chorus: Sing too-ra loo-ra lo

As I was a-walkin’ ’round Kilgary Mountain I met with Captain Pepper as his money he was countin’ I rattled my pistols and I drew forth my saber Sayin’, “S

For lang I courted Jeannie, and wrought with might and main, To get a puckle silver and a biggin’ o’ my ain; Every night I gaed to see her, be it late or b