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Last night as |
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I lay dreaming of pleasant days gone by, |
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Me mind been bent on rambling, to |
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Ireland I did fly, |
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I stepped on board a vision and followed with a will |
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Till next |
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I came to anchor at the cross near |
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Spancill Hill. |
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Delighted by the novelty, enchanted with the scene, |
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Where in me early boyhood - often |
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I had been, |
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I thought |
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I heard a murmur and |
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I think I hear it still |
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It's the little stream of water that flows down |
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Spancill Hill. |
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To amuse a passing fancy |
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I lay down on the ground, |
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And all my school companions they shortly gathered round |
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When we were home returning we danced with bright goodwill, |
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To Martin |
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Moynahan's music at the cross at |
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Spancill Hill. |
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It was on the 24th of |
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June, the day before the fair |
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When Ireland's sons and daughters and all assembled there, |
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The young, the old, the brave, the bold came their duty to fulfil, |
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At the little church in |
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Clooney, a mile from |
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Spancill Hill. |
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I went to see my neighbours to see what they might say, |
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The old ones they were dead and gone, the young ones turning grey, |
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I met the tailor |
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Quigley, he was bold as ever still, sure he used to make my britches when |
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I lived at |
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Spancill Hill. |
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I paid a flying visit to me first and only love, |
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She's as fair as any lilly and gentle as a dove, |
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She threw her arms around me crying "Johnny I love you still", |
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She was a farmer's daughter, the pride of |
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Spancill Hill. |
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Well I dreamt |
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I hugged and kissed her as in the days of yore |
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She said "Johnny you're only joking" as many the times before, |
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The cock crew in the morning, he crew both loud and shrill |
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And I awoke in |
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California, many miles from |
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Spancill Hill. |