I'd like to sing you a wee song I collected on my travels. It's called The Ballad Of Eamonn Holmes. In my memory I will always see The grub that I have loved so well Cafolla's fish is a tasty dish I was lured inside by the smell At the oul Burger Stap I'd a burger in a bap Aye, and chips, I could have ate a mountain And I muttered "Please Could I have a few more peas?" In the town I have loved so well All the odours rare in the mid-Ulster air Like a language that we could all understand I remember the day when I got my first pay And I bought out a whole Irwin's van My face I stuffed I could never get enough My da used to say "Now listen, Eamonn! If you lick thon butter-knife I will have your bloody life!" Ah … the grub I have loved so well I soon returned, the instant that I learned That oul' Lurgan Town had got up off its knees There's no Milan, the Rendezvous is the White Wran But there's a faint smell of pizza on the breeze And there's Chinese boys installed And the very best of all There's a new McDonald's – it's a drive-in With their burgers and their buns I thank God for what they've done To the town I loved so well
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