Written by Eilish Boland

You told me that you would come back some day
To me in Ballyhoe
But never a word since you went away
From me so long ago
Though the hours grew long and lonely
Nights have drifted into years
It's getting late, but still I wait
My eyes grown dim with tears

Chorus
Oh do you remember the hawthorn bush
Where we gathered every spring?
So do you remember the reel we danced
Around the fairy ring?
And do you remember the promise made
Beneath the chestnut tree?
But best of all, my absent one
Do you still remember me?

I wander along by the lakeside now
At sunset's early glow
Just dreaming of all the dreams we dreamt
As sweethearts long ago
Though the whispers come and the whispers go
The message comes over the sea
That a foreign land and a foreign strand
Has stolen you from me