The Old Lammas Fair-Ruby Murray

[00:03.90]At the old lammas fair in ballycastle long ago [00:08.57]I met a pretty colleen who set me heart a glow [00:12.48]She was smiling at her daddy buying lambs from paddy roe [00:17.03]At the old lammas fair in ballycastle oh [00:21.32]I seen her home that night [00:23.07]When the moon was shining bright [00:25.42]From the old lammas fair in ballycastle oh [00:29.62]At the old lammas fair boys were you ever there [00:34.22]Were you ever at the fair in ballycastle oh [00:38.29]Did you treat your Mary Ann [00:40.35]To some dulse and yellow man [00:42.78]At the old lammas fair in ballycastle oh [00:51.24]In Flanders's fields afar while resting from the war [00:55.98]We drank bon sante to the Flemish lassies oh [00:59.87]But the scene that haunts my memory is kissing Mary Ann [01:04.65]Her pouting lips all sticky from eating yellow man [01:08.94]We passed the silver margy and we strolled along the strand [01:13.29]From the old lammas fair in ballycastle oh [01:17.55]At the old lammas fair boy where you ever there [01:21.82]Were you ever at the fair in ballycastle oh [01:25.70]Did you treat your Mary Ann [01:27.89]To some dulse and yellow man [01:30.37]At the old lammas fair in ballycastle oh [01:38.90]There's a neat little cabin on the slopes of fair knocklayde [01:43.66]It's lit by love and sunshine where the heather honey's made [01:47.58]With the bees ever humming and the children's joyous call [01:52.35]Resounds across the valley when the shadows fall [01:56.23]I take my fiddle down and my Mary smiling there [02:00.93]Brings back a happy memory of the lammas fair [02:04.87]At the old lammas fair boy where you ever there [02:09.52]Were you ever at the fair in ballycastle oh [02:13.45]Did you treat your Mary Ann [02:15.58]To some dulse and yellow man [02:18.11]At the old lammas fair in ballycastle oh [02:25.28]