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Medley Four: Ballyhoe/Where the River Shannon Flows/Erin's Green Shore
Sean O'Neill Band
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You told me that you would come back some day to me at Ballyhoe
But never a word since you went away from me so long ago
The hours are long, the lonely days are drifting into years
Oh it's getting late but I still wait with eyes growing dim with tears
Oh do you remember the hawthorn nuts we gathered every spring
Do you remember the reels we danced around the fairy ring
And do you remember a promise made beneath a chestnut tree
But best of all my artsome one you still remember me.
There's a pretty spot in Ireland that I always claim for my land
where the fairies and the blarney will never never die
It's the land of the shill la lah my heart goes back there daily
to the girl I left behind me when we kissed and said goodbye
Where dear old Shannon's flowing
where the three leaved shamrock grows
where my heart is I am going to my little Irish rose
and the moment that I meet her
with a hug and kiss I'll greet her
for there's not a colleen sweeter
where the River Shannon flows
One evening so late as I rambled
On the banks of a clear purling stream,
I sat down on a bank of primroses,
And so gently fell into a dream.
I quickly addressed this fair female,
"My jewel, come tell me your name,
For in this country I know you're a stranger
Or I would not have asked you the same."
"I'm the daughter of Daniel O'Connell, from England I greatly sailed o'er.
I've come to awaken my brothers who slumber on Erin's Green Shore."
She resembled the goddess of liberty
And of freedom, the mantle she wore
As she sighed for the wrongs of her country
As she strayed along Erin's green shore.
In a transport of joy, I awakened since I found it was only a dream.
That beautiful lady had vanished I'm longing to see her again.
"I'm the daughter of Daniel O'Connell, from England I greatly sailed o'er.
I've come to awaken my brothers who slumber on Erin's Green Shore..."
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