[00:08.53]It seems like only yesterday
[00:10.61]I sailed from out of cork
[00:12.67]A wanderer from Erin's isle
[00:14.83]I landed in New York
[00:16.90]There wasn't a soul to greet me there
[00:19.07]A stranger on your shore
[00:21.10]But Irish luck was with me here
[00:23.24]And riches came galore
[00:25.29]And now that I'm going back again
[00:27.30]To dear old Erin's isle
[00:29.40]My friends will meet me on the pier
[00:31.56]And greet me with a smile
[00:33.59]Their faces sure I've almost forgot
[00:35.84]I've been so long away
[00:37.70]But me mother will introduce them all
[00:40.13]And this to me will say
[00:41.63]Shake hands with your Uncle Mike my honey
[00:44.10]And here is your sister Kate
[00:46.24]And there's the boyl you used to swing
[00:48.22]Down by the garden gate
[00:50.34]Shake hands with all of the neighbors
[00:52.44]And kiss the colleens all
[00:54.52]You're as welcome as the flowers in may
[00:56.63]To dear old Donegal
[01:03.05]They'll give a party when I go home
[01:05.05]They'll come from near and far
[01:07.01]They'll line the roads for miles and miles
[01:09.15]With Irish jaunting cars
[01:11.29]The spirits will flow like pouring milk
[01:13.41]We'll like never seen
[01:15.41]And the piper'll play an Irish reel
[01:17.53]To greet the Yankee ring
[01:19.67]We'll dance and sing the whole night long
[01:21.66]So try none never being
[01:23.88]The Lads'll be decked in corduroy
[01:26.02]The colleens wearing green
[01:27.96]There'll be thousands there that I never saw
[01:30.26]I've been so long away
[01:32.14]But me mother will introduce them all
[01:34.42]And this to me should say
[01:36.04]Shake hands with your Uncle Mike my honey
[01:38.69]And here is your sister Kate
[01:40.71]And there's the boy you used to swing
[01:42.65]Down by the garden gate
[01:44.83]Shake hands with all of the neighbors
[01:47.01]And kiss the colleens all
[01:48.90]You're as welcome as the flowers in may
[01:51.12]To dear old Donnegal
[01:52.89]Meet Branigan Fannigan Milligan Gilligan
[01:55.41]Duffy Mccuffy Malachy Mahone
[01:57.63]Rafferty Lafferty Donnelly Connelly
[01:59.68]Dooley O'Hooley Muldowney Malone
[02:01.84]Madigan Cadigan Lanihan Flanihan
[02:03.95]Fagan O'Hagan O'Hoolihan Flynn
[02:06.03]Shanihan Manihan fog arty hog arty
[02:08.19]Kelly oh Kelly McGuiness McGinnis
[02:14.04]At dear old Donegal