I found the ending rather sad and wrote another verse.Some like it some do not,but I like happy endings.

I soon returned to see my colleen, to the sweetest girl of all.
She was laughing as she ran to greet me when I reached her garden wall
We are now married with two lovely children and I am pleased I can recall.
That day when first I saw her and round her shoulders hung the Galway Shawl,

Al