Just came across your messages while looking for another Tipperary song called "Tipperary on My Mind." Am on the search for Tipperary folk songs if anyone can help me out. But I think I can help you out with the Tipperary Waltz. I heard it live down in Tipperary before, where my father comes from. It's a great song. I'll do me best.

Oh, the cows strayed in from the heather, mother. Will there be no milk for the tea?
All the time I was away wondered if anybody missed me.
I thought of my lovely Mary who works upon the farm.
I wondered if she smile at me as I offer her my arm.

CHORUS: Bow down plightly, take away slightly,
Skip around the floor with your one, two, three, four,
Hearts Help up Highly eyes shining brightly,
Dance with me, love, in the TIPPERARY WALTZ.

Well, I've killed a man in Flanders and I've killed a man in Spain,
But the men that I've killed in Ireland still haunt my dreams.
So says every soldier who's killed with lead or steel,
From the sons of Alexandra to the ghosts of our own DAN BREEN.

Well, no words could ever find the place that we call hell,
Where I prayed the light of heaven would not our dead revel
Then someone whistled a recruiting tune that filled me full of rage,
And I found these words in a soldier's hand with blood on the page.

Hope that helps, Cheers
john c