I heard this version on Spotify:


MANY YOUNG MEN OF TWENTY SAID GOODBYE
As sung by Barrowside on "Kathleen" (2010)

Many young men of twenty said goodbye
All that long day
From break of dawn until the sun was high.
Many young men of twenty said goodbye.

My boy Jimmy left that day.
On the big ship he sailed away.
He sailed away and left me here to die.
Many young men of twenty said goodbye.

I met my love upon the mountain rim.
The day he left,
I knew I bore a living child of him.
I knew I bore a living child of him.

And the child was born to me.
My Jimmy's far across the sea.
Jimmy's gone and here alone am I.
Many young men of twenty said goodbye.

My Jimmy said he'd sail across the sea.
He swore an oath
He'd sail back home one day and marry me.
My Jimmy said he'd sail across the sea.

But my Jimmy let me down.
Now they mock me in the town.
O my Jimmy, please come back to me.
O my Jimmy, please come back to me.

They left the mountains and the glens,
The lassies and the fine young men.
I saw the tears of ev'ry girl and boy.
Many young men of twenty said goodbye.