Billy Walker - Molly Darling

Wont you tell me Molly darling that you love none else but meFor I love you Molly darling you are all the world to meOh tell me darling that you love me put your little hand in mineTake my heart sweet Molly darling say youll always be just mineStars are shining Molly darling through a misty veil of ...

Alasdair Roberts - On The Banks Of Red Roses

When I was a wee thing, I heard my mother sayThat I was a rambler, and easy led astray.Before that I would work, I would rather sport and playWith my Johnny on the banks for red roses.On the banks of red roses, my love and I sat down.He took out his tuning books to play his love a tune.In the middle ...

Traditional Irish Drinking Songs - The Spinning Wheel Rose of Mooncoin

Mellow the moonlight to shine is beginningClose by the window young Eileen is spinningBent oer the fire her blind grandmother sittingCrooning and moaning and drowsily knitting.Merrily cheerily noiselessly whirringSpins the wheel, rings the wheel while the foots stirringSprightly and lightly and ...

Alasdair Roberts - Molly Bawn

Come all you young fathers that handle a gun,Beware of night-rambling by the setting of the sun.And beware of an accident that happened of late,To young Molly Bawn, and sad was her fate.She was going to her uncles, when a shower came on.She went under a green bush, the shower to shun.With her white ...

Gaelic Storm - The Ferryman

Oh the little boats have gone,from the breast of Anna Liffey,and the Ferrymen are stranded on the quai,The Dublin docks are dying,and a way of life is goneIts over Molly, over cant you seeWhere the strawberry beds,sweep down to the Liffey,youll kiss away the troubles from my browI love you well ...

Alison Krauss - Molly Bn

Come all ye young fellasThat handle a gunBeware of night ramblingBy the setting of the sunAnd beware of an accidentThat happened of lateTo young Molly BnAnd sad was her fateShe was going to her unclesWhen a shower came onShe went under a green bushThe shower to shunHer white apron wrapped around ...

Wolfe Tones - A Soldiers Return

I went away to fight a war that small nations might be freeGot a soldiers guns and uniform to fight the enemyI was trained to shoot my fellow before he got to meAnd I danced with death in the mud and weptAnd prayed my home to see.So come over to me darling girl come here me Molly dear.You are as ...

- Its a Long Way To Tipperary

Up to mighty London came an Irishman one day,As the streets are paved with gold, sure evryone was gay;Singing songs of Piccadilly, Strand and Leicester Square,Till Paddy got excited, then he shouted to them there:Chorus:lts a long way to Tipperary,Its a long way to go;Its a long way to Tipperary,To ...