Bantry Girls Lament

Bantry Girls Lament Lyrics

Song Bantry Girls Lament
Artist Joanie Madden
Album Celtic Twilight 6
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[00:00.60] Oh, Who will plough the fields now or who will sow the corn?
[00:09.63] And who will mind the sheep now and keep them neatly shorn?
[00:19.55] The stack that's in the haggard, unthrashed it may remain
[00:26.79] Since Johnny's went a-thrashing the dirty king of Spain
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[00:59.38] The girls from the bawnogue in sorrow may retire
[01:08.47] And the piper and his bellows go home and blow the fire
[01:18.19] Since Johnny, lovely Johnny is sailing o'er the main
[01:27.42] Along with other patriots to fight the King of Spain
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[01:39.59] The boys will surely miss him when Moneymore comes round
[01:48.52] And they'll find that their bold captain is nowhere to be found
[01:57.89] And the peelers must stand idle, all against their will and main
[02:07.38] Since the gallant boys who gave them work now peels the King of Spain
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[02:37.29] At wakes or hurling matches your like we'll never see
[02:46.81] Till you come back to us again a stor gra geal mo chroi
[02:55.34] And won't you thrash the buckeens that show us much disdain
[03:04.89] Because our eyes are not so bright as those you'll meet in Spain
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[03:17.93] If cruel fate will not permit our Johnny to return
[03:26.57] His heavy loss we Bantry girls will never cease to mourn
[03:36.22] We'll resign ourselves to our sad lot and die in grief and pain
[03:45.95] Since Johnny died for Ireland's pride in the foreign land of Spain
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