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Thread #10968   Message #79804
Posted By: Wolfgang
19-May-99 - 10:52 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Banks of Mulroy Bay (Hugh Friel)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE BANKS OF MULROY BAY
spburke,
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ndrose/texts/mccaffertytext.html is the place I copied the below lyrics from with all the remaining ?? may be polished off by somebody else. Though the title is slightly different, it's the same song. I'm not sure, but I might know it from a Moloney CD. Slightly different lyrics, same song.

Wolfgang

The Banks of Mulroy Bay

When the golden sun was settin far behind the ocean blue
The silvery moon was risin oer the hills of Limerick toun
The day I sailed from Ireland, that mornin dark and grey
When I bad farewell to Mary on the banks of Mulroy Bay

And that (?) so neat and small
The (?) the hills of Donegal
I ofttimes dreamt of Eire, my friends now far away
And the bonny purple heather round the banks of Mulroy Bay

I ofttimes dreamt of my mother settin by the cottage door
My sister and my brother as they wandered round the shore
On a bonny summer's evenin in that dear land far away
And the fishin boats that anchored near the banks of Mulroy Bay

I am now a lonely exile far from my native home
A poor forlorn stranger through the wild world I must roam
I may never see the (?) the hawthorne bushes gay
Nor the bonny hills of Fanad near the banks of Mulroy Bay

I have roamed this wide world over (?) rich and grand
I won't forget old Fanad, my own dear native land
I won't forget old Fanad, that mornin dark and grey
When I bad farewell to Mary on the banks of Mulroy Bay