HI JOHN!
Here you are the whole lyrics:
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THE REASON I LEFT MULLINGAR

I walk through the city a stranger
In a land I can never call home,
And I curse the sad notion that caused me
In search of my fortune to roam.
I'm weary of work and hard drinking
And a week's wages left in a bar,
And God! it's a shame to use a friend's name
Just to beg for the price of a jar.

CHORUS: I remember that bright April morning
When I left home to travel afar,
But to work till you're dead
For one room and a bed
Is not the reason I left Mullingar.

This London's a city of heartbreak.
On Friday, there's friends by the score,
But when the pay's finished on Monday,
A friend's not a friend anymore.
For the working day seems never ending.
From the shovel and pick, there's no break.
And when you're not working, you're spending
The fortune you left home to make. CHORUS

And for every man here that finds fortune
And comes home to tell of the tale,
Each morning the broadway is crowded
With many the thousand who fail.
So, young men of Ireland, take warning:
In London you will never find
The gold at the end of the rainbow.
You might just have left it behind. CHORUS

(Recorded by The Furey Bros. and Davey Arthur)

Bye!
Ezio, Italy

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The Reason I Left Mullingar in the Digital Tradition (added 1997).

Songwriter is Pat Cooksey.