The Silly Wizard version is slightly different from the one quoted above. Their version is below. (Note: In the chorus it sounds more like "Reminds me on my Mary, on the banks of the Lee" but I have left "of", which makes more sense to a Englishman!)


THE BANKS OF THE LEE
Silly Wizard Version

Where true lovers meet beneath the green bower
When true lovers meet out beneath the green tree
And Mary, fond Mary, she says unto her true love
"You have stolen my young heart by the Banks of the Lee"

Chorus
For I loved her very dearly, most truly and sincerely
There is no one in this wide world I loved more than she
Every bush and every bower, every wild Irish flower
Reminds me of my Mary, on the banks of the Lee.

"Don't stay out too late, love, on the moorlands, my Mary
Don't stay out too late, love, on the moorlands for me"
But its little was my notion when we parted by the ocean
That we were forever parting by the Banks of the Lee

(Chorus)

I will pull my love some roses, some wild Irish roses
I will pull my love some roses, the fairest to see
And I'll lay them on the graveside of my own dear darlin' Mary
In that cold and silent grave where she sleeps 'neath the dew

(Chorus)