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Thread #144798   Message #3348745
Posted By: GUEST,mg
09-May-12 - 01:15 PM
Thread Name: Wanted - Canal tunes and songs
Subject: RE: Wanted - Canal tunes
Irish Canal tune..unnamed

I'm a dublin bargee and i travel y see
wid a cargo of turf on me boat
an when folks ax in jest, what's the plast i like best
i tell them to listen an note

every satterday night sure i feel gay an bright
as e apls an i joke an we talk
we meet girls that we know at the fine gpo
and mosy down bachelor's walk

i may take aa few jars wid me butties in bars
twud be dry fun widout eer a wet
for the horses and dogs i've oft panwed me togs
like some chaps will do for a bet

now on dollymount strad i've spent days so grand
when we swam out from off the bull wall
and we'd argue for gas wud it eer come to pass
we'd see the lagoon built at all

in the the town of athlone lives a widdah alone
and she has a agreat failthe for me
while sweet eileen asthore from outside tulla more
said to wed me she'd surely agree

then in carlow ther's kate wid a form trim an nate
all her folks want to fix up the day
an in far killaloe there's a dark colleen who
believes o'er me heart she holds sway

tho i go far afloat on me oul canal boat
an i meet with fair colleens galore
yet i alwas return to me own magser byrne
who waits for me near inchicore