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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