Dear Old Donegal-Ruby Murray

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