GOODBYE MUIRSHEEN DURKIN (as performed by Distant Voices)

In the days when I went courtin', I never tired resortin'
ta the alehouse and the playhouse and the other "house" besides.
I told me brother, Seamus, I'll be off now and grow famous;
an' a'fore that I return again I'll roam the whole world wide. So its...

Chorus:
Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin, I'm sick and tired of workin'.
No more I'll dig for praties. No longer I'll be poor;
for sure as my name is Barney, I'm bound for Californey.
Instead of diggin' praties I'l be diggin' lots-a gold.

I've courted girls in Blarney, in Kanturk and Killarney,
in Dublin and in Queenstown, that's in the cobh of Cork.
But I'm tired of all this pleasure so now I'll take me leisure,
the next time that ya hear from me I'll write ya from New York. So its...(Chorus)

Goodby ta all the boys at home, I'm sailin' far across the foam
ta try an' make me fortune in far Amer-e-ky,
where there's gold and silver plenty, for the poor an' for the gentry
and when I come back home again I never more will roam. (Chorus)

When I got to Amer-e-ky I met a man named Burt.
He said if I would stay awhile he'd surely find me work.
But work he di-na' find me, so there's nothin' here ta bind me.
I'm bound for San Francisco in Caniforn-i-ay. (Chorus)

I'm now in San Francisco and me fortune it is made.
Me pockets are all lined weh gold, I'll throw me spade away.
I'll be goin' back ta Erin, spend me fortune never carin'.
Ull marry to a fine House and never more will stray. So its...(Chorus)