The Bantry Girls Lament, The Ol’ Yellow House-The Duhks

[ti:The Bantry Girls Lament, The Ol’ Yellow House] [ar:The Duhks] [al:Your Daughters & Your Sons] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Bantry Girls Lament, The Ol’ Yellow House - The Duhks [00:07.88]Oh who will plow the fields all day and who will thrash the corn [00:14.66] [00:16.34]Who will tend the sheep now and see them neatly shorn [00:22.82] [00:23.68]The stack that's in the haggard unthrashed it may remain [00:30.98] [00:31.72]Now that Johnny's gone a thrashing all in the wars of Spain [00:39.00] [00:41.88]The girls from the bawnogue in sorrow may retire [00:48.92] [00:49.53]And the piper with his bellows may go home and blow the fire [00:57.00] [00:57.81]For Johnny lovely Johnny is sailing o'er the main [01:04.92] [01:05.79]Along with the other patriots to fight the king of Spain [01:12.85] [01:22.86]The boys will surely miss him when money more comes around [01:29.81] [01:30.79]And they'll weep that their bold captain is nowhere to be found [01:37.73] [01:38.72]And the peelers may stand idle all against their will and main [01:45.69] [01:46.61]Since the gallant boy who gave them work now peels the king of Spain [01:54.03] [02:10.80]At wakes and hurling matches your like we'll never see [02:17.97] [02:18.60]Till you come back to us again a stor gra geal mo chroi [02:25.79] [02:26.69]Then won't you thrash the buckeens that show us such disdain [02:33.97] [02:34.80]Because our eyes are not so bright as those you'll see in Spain [02:41.95] [03:02.83]If cruel fate should not allow our Johnny to return [03:09.89] [03:10.74]His heavy loss we bantry girls will never cease to mourn [03:17.96] [03:18.79]We'll resign ourselves to our sad lot and live in grief and pain [03:25.97] [03:26.71]Since Johnny died for freedom's sake in the foreign land of Spain