Dear Old Donegal (2005 Digital Remaster)-Ruby Murray

[00:08.53]It seems like only yesterday [00:10.61]I sailed from out of cork [00:12.67]A wanderer from Erin's isle [00:14.83]I landed in New York [00:16.90]There wasn't a soul to greet me there [00:19.07]A stranger on your shore [00:21.10]But Irish luck was with me here [00:23.24]And riches came galore [00:25.29]And now that I'm going back again [00:27.30]To dear old Erin's isle [00:29.40]My friends will meet me on the pier [00:31.56]And greet me with a smile [00:33.59]Their faces sure I've almost forgot [00:35.84]I've been so long away [00:37.70]But me mother will introduce them all [00:40.13]And this to me will say [00:41.63]Shake hands with your Uncle Mike my honey [00:44.10]And here is your sister Kate [00:46.24]And there's the boyl you used to swing [00:48.22]Down by the garden gate [00:50.34]Shake hands with all of the neighbors [00:52.44]And kiss the colleens all [00:54.52]You're as welcome as the flowers in may [00:56.63]To dear old Donegal [00:58.26] [01:03.05]They'll give a party when I go home [01:05.05]They'll come from near and far [01:07.01]They'll line the roads for miles and miles [01:09.15]With Irish jaunting cars [01:11.29]The spirits will flow like pouring milk [01:13.41]We'll like never seen [01:15.41]And the piper'll play an Irish reel [01:17.53]To greet the Yankee ring [01:19.67]We'll dance and sing the whole night long [01:21.66]So try none never being [01:23.88]The Lads'll be decked in corduroy [01:26.02]The colleens wearing green [01:27.96]There'll be thousands there that I never saw [01:30.26]I've been so long away [01:32.14]But me mother will introduce them all [01:34.42]And this to me should say [01:36.04]Shake hands with your Uncle Mike my honey [01:38.69]And here is your sister Kate [01:40.71]And there's the boy you used to swing [01:42.65]Down by the garden gate [01:44.83]Shake hands with all of the neighbors [01:47.01]And kiss the colleens all [01:48.90]You're as welcome as the flowers in may [01:51.12]To dear old Donnegal [01:52.89]Meet Branigan Fannigan Milligan Gilligan [01:55.41]Duffy Mccuffy Malachy Mahone [01:57.63]Rafferty Lafferty Donnelly Connelly [01:59.68]Dooley O'Hooley Muldowney Malone [02:01.84]Madigan Cadigan Lanihan Flanihan [02:03.95]Fagan O'Hagan O'Hoolihan Flynn [02:06.03]Shanihan Manihan fog arty hog arty [02:08.19]Kelly oh Kelly McGuiness McGinnis [02:14.04]At dear old Donegal [02:22.38]