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THE BOYS FROM THE COUNTY ARMAGH
As sung by the McNulty Family (but see footnotes)

1. There's one fair county in Ireland with memories so glorious and grand,
Where nature has lavished its bounty; it's the orchard of Erin's green land.
I love the cathedral and city once founded by Patrick so true,
And it bears in the heart of its bosom the ashes of Brian Boru.

CHORUS: It's my own Irish home far across the foam.
Although I've often left it in foreign lands to roam,
No matter where I wander in cities near or far,
My heart's at home in old Ireland in the county of Armagh.

2. I've traveled that part of the country through Newtown, Forkhill, Crossmaglen,*
And around by the gap of Mountnorris** and home by Blackwater again
Where the girls are so gay and so pretty, none fairer in Erin's green isle
But where are the boys who can court them like the boys from the County Armagh.


[* In the recording, it sounds like the singer is singing "from Newtown to Kilcrossmaglen." However, I can find no such place as Kilcrossmaglen, so I have substituted "through Newtown, Forkhill, Crossmaglen" which I found at several places on the internet, for example, here. (No website I found cited a source.) At least those are real places in County Armagh. I assume the McNultys, being from Canada, were not familiar with Irish place names, and having no internet for research, simply committed a mondegreen.

[** Likewise, it sounds like "MacMorris" or "MacNorris" but I can find no such place; Mountnorris, at least, exists.]