Darlin' Girl From Clare-Brendan O'Dowda

[ti:Darling Girl from Clare] [ar:Brendan O'Dowda] [al:The World of Percy French (Re-Mastered Extended Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Darlin' Girl From Clare - Brendan O'Dowda [00:06.60]We were sitting on the wall upon a Sunday [00:09.92]To watch the girls go by [00:13.21]And a'thinking we'd be marrit to one one day [00:16.47]When a colleen caught our eye [00:19.70]Oh man she was the makings of a fairy [00:23.05]She made each boy'o swear [00:26.26]There's not one girl in this wide wide world [00:29.83]Like the darling girl from Clare [00:32.96]Now every man has got the finest plan [00:36.47]You'd ever see now barring me now [00:40.13]Every day there's one of them will say [00:43.34]That she'll agree now Oh you'll see now [00:46.81]Each night they would fight as to which of them was right [00:49.98]About the colour of her eyes or hair [00:53.27]But not one word from me was ever heard [00:56.65]About the darling girl from Clare [00:59.73] [01:05.22]Sez Fagan 'tis the father I'll be plaising [01:08.54]I'll tell him of the land I've tilled [01:11.67]I'll tell him of the cattle that I'm grazing [01:15.06]And the house I mean for to build [01:18.38]And when he sees the arable and pasture [01:21.76]And the fat stock grazing there [01:25.08]And the hens and the chickens you may go to the dickens [01:28.75]For the darling girl from Clare [01:31.54]So every man has got the finest plan [01:35.37]You'd ever see now barring me now [01:39.13]Every day there's one of them will say [01:42.24]That she'll agree now you'll see now [01:45.60]Thinks I whither now though I haven't ere a cow [01:48.98]Of brass I've got my share [01:52.18]And so I know the way I ought to go [01:55.82]About the darling girl from Clare [01:58.45] [02:04.14]Sez Sharkey she'll be coming to the shop now [02:07.73]To buy some sort of thing [02:11.00]And I'll ask her if she has a mind to stop here [02:13.65] [02:14.38]And should I buy her the ring [02:17.74]And when she sees the curtains on the window [02:21.06]And the tall clock on the stair [02:24.56]Keeping time to the minute noone else will be in it [02:28.06]For the darling girl from Clare [02:31.13]So every man has got the finest plan [02:34.90]You'd ever see now barring me now [02:38.52]Every day there's one of them will say [02:41.60]That she'll agree now you'll see now [02:44.93]Thinks I ye may stop till you rot in your shop [02:48.23]And never a hair she'll care [02:51.61]With all yer gold you'll never hold a hold [02:54.90]Upon the darling girl from Clare [02:57.99] [03:03.58]I never said a single word about her [03:06.87]But I met that girl that day [03:10.16]And I told her that I couldn't live without her [03:12.65] [03:13.74]And what had she for to say [03:16.96]She said me to go and ask her father [03:20.32]I met him then and there [03:23.69]And in less than an hour we were fighting for the dower [03:26.80]Of the darling girl from Clare [03:30.37]So every man had got the finest plan [03:33.86]You'd ever see now barring me now [03:37.62]Every day there's one of them will say [03:40.66]That she'll agree now Oh you'll see now [03:44.05]But late last night when the moon was bright [03:47.40]I axed her if she would share [03:50.75]All me joy and me sorra and begorrah on tomorra [03:54.30]I'll be married to the girl from Clare