Hi, this is Rita Ferrara again, using my husband's logon. Here are the words for "Dear Old Donegal." I have a Noteworthy Composer file of the tune I can e-mail to anyone that wants it, or a midi of same. Actually, Bill says I can e-mail the midi to Joe Offer and have it put up on the midi site if you think there would be general interest.

DEAR OLD DONEGAL

1
It seems like only yesterday I sailed from out of Cork
A wanderer from Erin's isle, I landed in New York
There wasn't a soul to greet me there, a stranger on your shore,
But the Irish luck was with me here, and riches came galore.
And now that I'm going back again to dear old Erin's isle,
My friends will meet me at the dock and greet me with a smile
Their faces, sure, I've almost forgot, I've been so long away,
But me mother will introduce them all, and this to me will say:

CHORUS: Shake hands with your uncle Mike, me boy, and here is your sister Kate,
And there's the girl you used to swing down by the garden gate,
Shake hands with all of the neighbors, and kiss the colleens all
You're as welcome as the flowers of spring to Dear Old Donegal.

PATTER: Meet ... Branigan, Flanagan, Milligan, Gilligan, Duffy, McGuffy, Malachy, Mahone -
Rafferty, Lafferty, Donnelly, Connelly, Dooley, O'Hooley, Muldoney, Malone -
Madigan, Cadigan, Lanigan, Flanigan, Fagin, O'Hagin, O'Hoolihan, Flynn -
Shanihan, Manihan, Fogarty, Hogarty, Kelly, O'Kelly, McGuinness, McGuinn.

2
They'll give a party when I go home, they'll come from near and far.
They'll line the road for miles and miles with Irish jaunting cars.
The whiskey will flow like buttermilk, 'twill fill our hearts with joy.
The piper will play an Irish reel to greet the Yankee boy.
The dancers will reel the whole night long, such fun as never seen.
The lads will be decked in corduroy, the colleens wearin' green.
There'll be thousands there that I never saw, I've been so long away,
But my mother will introduce them all and this to me will say:

CHORUS & PATTER