As performed by Kilfenora Fiddle Ceili Band: As I sit and dream in Boston, beneath the starry skies Memories come crowding of the time I was a boy A barefoot happy lad I trod the wide, wide streets of home A carefree lad with friends galore, I was a fool to roam But now I'm comin' back to Miltown In a week I will be there Back with the folks I love so well In my dear old County Clare I love the friendly neighbors And I'll drink with all the boys I want to see the sadness Leave my dear mother's eyes My mother, she had raised me on her own since I was three And it nearly broke her kindly heart when I went across the sea But I was young in those far off days, all I wanted was to roam I didn't mind the heartbreak I caused to those back home But now I'm comin' back to Miltown In a week I will be there Back with the folks I love so well In my dear old County Clare I love the friendly neighbors And I'll drink with all the boys I want to see the sadness Leave my dear mother's eyes Near Quilty there's a beauty, her name, it is Eileen And I know that she is waiting there for me So no more I'll go a roamin', in Miltown I will stay And I'll wed my dark eyed beauty right away So now I'm comin' back to Miltown In a week I will be there Back with the folks I love so well In my dear old County Clare I love the friendly neighbors And I'll drink with all the boys I want to see the sadness Leave my dear mother's eyes
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