The Galway shawl
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1. In Oranmore, in
the County Galway,
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one
pleasant evening in the month of May,
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I spied a damsel,
she was young and handsome,
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her
beauty fairly took my breath away.
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She wore no jewels, nor costly diamonds,
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nor paint nor powder, no none at
all,
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she wore a bonnet with a ribbon
on it,
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and on her shoulders was the
Galway shawl.
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2. We kept on walking, she kept on talking,
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till
her father’s cottage came into view.
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Said she, “Come in, sir, and
meet my father,
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and
for to please him, play the ‘Foggy Dew’.”
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3. I played the “Blackbird” and the “Stack of Barley”,
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“Old Rodney’s Glory” and the
“Foggy Dew”,
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she
sang each note, like an Irish linnet,
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whilst
tears, they flowed, in her eyes of blue.
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She wore no jewels, nor costly diamonds,
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nor paint nor powder, nor none at
all,
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she wore a bonnet with a ribbon
on it,
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and on her shoulders was the
Galway shawl.
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4. ‘Twas early, early, all in the morning,
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I hit the road for, old Donegal.
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Said she, “Goodbye, sir”, as
she cried,
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and
my heart remained with, the Galway shawl.
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