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