Seems like an old thread, but what the heck,...

I heard this song by Tina Mulrooney as she sat playing harp at the Cliffs of Moher, Co Claire, Ireland.

The song appears on her album 'Memory Of Ireland' as The Soldier's Farewell. I don't come any better.

Roger Fullilove

Her lyrics are:-

TONIGHT IS OUR LAST NIGHT TOGETHER

One day as I strolled by the banks of the Boyne
Some soldiers were going away
There was one soldier lad with his pale face so sad
To his sweetheart these words he did say

CHORUS
Tonight is our last night together
When the nearest and dearest must part
But a soldier may roam to the ends of this world
With his thoughts on his loving sweetheart.

Let us go take a stroll through the meadow
Where we first fell in love you and I
Where you taught me to love you, dear Molly
Kiss me and bid me goodbye

Repeat chorus

And as he went into the battle
Wounded and dying he lay
But his last dying wish for dear Molly
Was his country, his mother and you

Repeat chorus