Here's a few amendments: My heartstrings make sweet music if I would think of you And if you would call me darlin' sure I [would wear a feather too] I would swim the Suir and [Slaney] and the Shannon any day Just to talk with you, lovely lady, and to walk you round Loughrea If I owned all Portuna and the markets of Athlone All the walls and all the money that belonged to Limerick town I would part them to your people, oh, if you'd let me presume Just to walk with you, lovely lady, and to be your Squire in Tuam Oh, rose leaf'd May, ‘tis easy] [for to blend a wastrel now] Ah, but who was ever able for to harrow with a plow Not reared was I for labor or to watch the seasons play But gamblin', sport, and dancin' that lost me my own Loughrea In her grey house by the water, my love is dwellin' still She's the moon's only daughter, oh, alone upon the hill She may braid her hair that evenin' [ ] They may think it's the moon that's rising o'er the grey lake of Loughrea Last night, abroad in London, I spent my only crown I toasted my own one and after cried tears down I walked the lamps till mornin' and I heard you hark away I wish I was the red fox that you hunted round Loughrea Oh, lent may last till Easter and after summer comes But fast and never feastin' when the snow bush bud's in bloom The Queen of Heart's is lonely but the Joker's still to play I will lead and take her from you, you strong men of Loughrea Tuam, Portumna and Loughrea are place names in County Galway. The Suir is an Irish river. "Walked the lamps" seems to mean walked the streets at night. Lent is the season before Easter. There are still a few difficult lines - I'll talk to Johnny about them when I see him next. Regards
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