The lyrics are (although there is one gap where I can't recall the beginning of a sentence - sorry):
Chorus Oh You're a rascal Tarry Flynn You're writing poetry instead of digging drills Strolling around the fields all day Won't you ever work or won't you ever stay?
Verse 1 Is there a man who cares that I should be spared All this life of drudgery? BLANK..........shaking shooks of hay, wishing all the day That some hour I could be free
Chorus
Verse 2 Oh mother can't you see that this farmer's life It was never meant for me To reap and sow I don't want to, no But to Dublin go For that's where my life should be
Chorus
Verse 3 Don't come to say goodbye -mothers always cry Shake my hand and set me free When fame has come to my Dublin home Maybe then some day You'll come up and visit me