Cavan Girl-Paddy Kelly

[ti:Cavan Girl] [ar:Paddy Kelly] [al:25 Classic Irish Love Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cavan Girl - Paddy Kelly [00:08.34]As I walk the road from Killeshandra [00:12.59] [00:13.65]Weary I sat down [00:15.91] [00:16.78]For it's twelve long miles around [00:20.03]The lake to get to Cavan Town [00:24.53] [00:25.72]Though Oughter and the road [00:28.59]I go once seemed beyond compare [00:33.35] [00:33.91]Now I curse the time it takes [00:37.15]To reach my Cavan girl so fair [00:41.47] [00:51.16]The autumn shades are on the leaves [00:55.60]The trees will soon be bare [00:59.16] [00:59.72]Each red-coat leaf around me seems [01:04.09]The colour of her hair [01:07.59] [01:08.59]My gaze retreats to find my feet [01:12.72]And once again I sigh [01:16.28] [01:17.22]As the broken pools of sky remind me [01:21.10] [01:22.10]Of the colour of her eyes [01:24.91] [01:33.97]At the Cavan cross each Sunday morning [01:37.97] [01:39.09]Where she can be found [01:41.60] [01:42.59]And she seems to have the eye [01:46.28]Of every boy in Cavan Town [01:50.41] [01:51.10]If my luck will hold [01:53.28]I'll have the golden summer of her smile [01:58.97] [01:59.72]And to break the hearts of Cavan men [02:04.05]She'll talk to me a while [02:07.23] [02:16.80]So next Sunday evening finds me homeward [02:21.30]Killeshandra bound - [02:25.74]To work the week till [02:27.80]I return to court in Cavan Town [02:32.98] [02:34.24]When asked if she would be my bride [02:37.86] [02:38.55]At least she'd not say no [02:41.67] [02:42.49]So next Sunday morning [02:44.86]I'll rouse myself and back to her I'll go