Lyrics with correct spelling:

Tá mo chleamhnas déanta ó arú aréir
S' ní mó ná go dtaitníonn an bhean liom féin
Ach fágfaidh mé i mo dhiaidh í is rachaidh mé liom féin
Faoi bhruach na coille craobhaí

Ó, shiúil mise soir agus shiúil mise siar
Shiúil mise Corcaigh agus sráideanna Bhaile Átha Cliath
Ach macasamhail mo chailín dheas ní fhaca mise riamh
S'í an bhean dubh a d'fhág mo chroí cráite

Is fada atá mo tharraingt ar an mbaile seo le bliain
Is ní mar gheall ar Mhuire é agus níl sé i ngeall ar Dhia
Ach dúil ó go bhfaighinn í, bláth na n-úll
S'í an bhean dubh a thug mo chroí grá di

Ó, d'éirigh mé ar maidin dhá uair roimh an lá
Is fuair mise litir ó mo mhíle grá
Chuala mé an smolach is an londubh á rá
Gur éalaigh mo ghrá thar sáile

(In English):

My match has been made since the night before last
And it's not much I like my own wife(-to-be)
But I'll leave her behind and I'll go by myself
To the shores of the branchy woodlands

(chorus)
I walked east and I walked west
I walked Cork and the streets of Dublin
But the equal of my nice girl I never saw
She's the dark woman who's left my heart grieved

It's been a long haul for me in this city for years
And not for the sake of Mary, and not for the sake of God
But hope that I'll get her, in apple-blossom time
She's the dark woman my heart's given love to

O, I rose in the morning two hours before the day
And I got a letter from my thousand-times love
I heard the thrush and the blackbird say
That my love had escaped across the sea.