[ti:Dear Old Donegal]
[ar:The Craftsmen]
[al:Your Country & Irish Requests]
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[00:00.00]Dear Old Donegal - The Craftsmen
[00:04.97]It seems like only yesterday
[00:06.86]I sailed from out of Cork
[00:08.13]
[00:08.85]A wanderer from Erin's isle
[00:10.67]I landed in New York
[00:11.92]
[00:12.73]There wasn't a soul to greet me there
[00:14.59]A stranger on your shore
[00:15.79]
[00:16.56]But Irish luck was with me here
[00:18.47]And riches came galore
[00:19.75]
[00:20.48]And now that I'm going back again
[00:22.38]To dear old Erin's isle
[00:23.49]
[00:24.29]My friends will meet me on the pier
[00:26.27]And greet me with a smile
[00:27.46]
[00:28.10]Their faces sure I've almost forgot
[00:29.97]I've been so long away
[00:31.15]
[00:31.83]But me mother will introduce them all
[00:33.88]And this to me will say
[00:35.11]
[00:35.76]Shake hands with your Uncle Mike me boy
[00:37.89]And here is your sister Kate
[00:38.97]
[00:39.63]And there's the girl you used to swing
[00:41.57]Down by the garden gate
[00:42.90]
[00:43.49]Shake hands with all of the neighbours
[00:45.37]And kiss the colleens all
[00:46.73]
[00:47.27]You're as welcome as the flowers in May
[00:49.14]To dear old Donnegal
[00:50.19]
[00:55.21]They'll give a party when I go home
[00:56.88]They'll come from near and far
[00:58.86]They'll line the roads for miles and miles
[01:01.08]With Irish jauntin' cars
[01:02.01]
[01:02.67]The spirits'll flow and we'll be gay
[01:04.59]We'll fill your hearts with joy
[01:05.86]
[01:06.47]The piper'll play an Irish reel
[01:08.32]To greet the Yankee boy
[01:09.60]
[01:10.34]We'll dance and sing the whole night long
[01:12.14]Such fun as never seen
[01:13.69]
[01:14.21]The lads'll be decked in corduroy
[01:16.07]The colleens wearin' green
[01:17.34]
[01:18.06]There'll be thousands there that I never saw
[01:20.03]I've been so long away
[01:21.26]
[01:21.79]But me mother will introduce them all
[01:23.73]And this to me will say
[01:25.13]
[01:25.70]Shake hands with your Uncle Mike me boy
[01:27.58]And here is your sister Kate
[01:29.48]And there's the girl you used to swing
[01:31.32]Down by the garden gate
[01:32.67]
[01:33.37]Shake hands with all of the neighbours
[01:35.21]And kiss the colleens all
[01:36.20]
[01:38.89]You're as welcome as the flowers in May
[01:42.22]
[01:44.23]To dear old Donnegal