Lyrics

When I was a little lad and so me mother told me, Way haul away, we’ll haul away Joe. That if I did not kiss the girls me lips would grow all moldy. Way ha

At a cottage door one wintry night As the snow lay on the ground Stood a youthful Irish soldier boy for the mountains he was bound. His mother stood beside

I went to see David, to London to David I went to see David, and what did he do? He gave me a Free State, a nice little Free State A Free State that’s boun

They were green and they beautiful their hearts were filled with love They were pure as any lily as gentle as a dove Their singing cheering harmony till th

I am a little beggarman, a begging I have been For three score years in this little isle of green I’m known along the Liffey from the Basin to the Zoo And

I’ll tell yez how it was with me if to listen yez are willin’ ‘Twas in yon house behind yon hill where I had lately been distillin’ I slung a keg upon me b

Oh we’ll drink, we’ll drink, we’ll drink To Lily the Pink, the Pink, the Pink The saviour of the human race She invented medicinal compound Most effective

By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes, Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond Where me and my true love were ever wont to gae, On the bonnie bonn

Up the Republic, they raise their battle cry Pearse and McDermott will pray for you on high Eager and ready, for love of you they die Proud march the soldi

My Harry was a gallant gay fu’ stately strode he on the plain Now he’s banish’d far away I’ll never see him back again Chorus: Oh for him back again, oh fo