Dear Old Donegal - Ruby Murray

作曲：Steve Graham

It seems like only yesterday

I sailed from out of cork

A wanderer from Erin's isle

I landed in New York

There wasn't a soul to greet me there

A stranger on your shore

But Irish luck was with me here

And riches came galore

And now that I'm going back again

To dear old Erin's isle

My friends will meet me on the pier

And greet me with a smile

Their faces sure I've almost forgot

I've been so long away

But me mother will introduce them all

And this to me will say

Shake hands with your Uncle Mike my honey

And here is your sister Kate

And there's the boyl you used to swing

Down by the garden gate

Shake hands with all of the neighbors

And kiss the colleens all

You're as welcome as the flowers in may

To dear old Donegal

They'll give a party when I go home

They'll come from near and far

They'll line the roads for miles and miles

With Irish jaunting cars

The spirits will flow like pouring milk

We'll like never seen

And the piper'll play an Irish reel

To greet the Yankee ring

We'll dance and sing the whole night long

So try none never being

The Lads'll be decked in corduroy

The colleens wearing green

There'll be thousands there that I never saw

I've been so long away

But me mother will introduce them all

And this to me should say

Shake hands with your Uncle Mike my honey

And here is your sister Kate

And there's the boy you used to swing

Down by the garden gate

Shake hands with all of the neighbors

And kiss the colleens all

You're as welcome as the flowers in may

To dear old Donnegal

Meet Branigan Fannigan Milligan Gilligan

Duffy Mccuffy Malachy Mahone

Rafferty Lafferty Donnelly Connelly

Dooley O'Hooley Muldowney Malone

Madigan Cadigan Lanihan Flanihan

Fagan O'Hagan O'Hoolihan Flynn

Shanihan Manihan fog arty hog arty

Kelly oh Kelly McGuiness McGinnis

At dear old Donegal