I have traveled all across the ocean
A lonely stranger on foreign shores
Far from the old ones who loved me dearly
Far from the one place that I call home

I have wandered forbidden cities
Made my wish by the wailing wall
Threw my silver in the Rio Grande
All for my

Last night as I lay on my pillow
A vision appeared in my view
Of a ship sailing over the ocean
And the wind it tremendously blew
On the deck stood a handsome young lady
Whose features I'd never seen before
And she sighed for the wrongs of her country
Saying I'm banish

In Curraghroe the fields are green, the skies are fair
And Slieve Bawn crown'd in heavenly sheen stands silent there
Even now, 'mid all my hopes and fears, the tears will flow
When I look back through misty years to Curraghroe

In Curraghroe the wild birds sing tehir sweetest la

In the county Roscommon in the hailstones and rain as I was crossing the fields on
My way to the train I met a young Colleen says she do you know
What's the shortest shortcut into old Ballymoe?

Says I, Cailin Og, what led you astray? I think I'll go with you, and show you
The w

As I went a walking one morning in May
To view your fair valleys and your mountains so gay
I was thinking of your flowers all going to decay
That grow around ye bonny, bonny Slieve Gallon Brae

Oft times have I wandered with my dog and my gun
And travelled your valleys for j

I know a wee spot, it's a place of great fame
It lies to the North, and I'll tell you its name
It's my own native birthplace, and it lies an Irish soil
And they call it lovely Derry on the banks of the Foyle

I courted a wee girl, her age was nineteen
She was the fairest you

T'was down by the Glenside
I met an old woman
A plucking young nettles
She ne'er saw me coming
I listened to a while
To the song, she was humming
Glory o glory o, to the bold Fenian man

It's fifty long years
Since I saw the moon beaming
A strong mainly force

Dear thoughts are in my mind
And my soul soars enchanted
As I hear the sweet lark sing
In the clear air of the day
For a tender beaming smile
To my hope has been granted
And tomorrow she shall hear
All my fond heart would say

I shall tell her all my love
All

Where the rod leads to the river
I pass the fields I know so well
Seems I've known them since forever
All their stories I can tell
I see my father in the meadow
He knows this day will be
That I will leave tomorrow
That I will be a memory
And I see him through the