Spancil Hill-Paddy Reilly

[ti:Spancil Hill] [ar:Paddy Reilly] [al:20 Golden Irish Ballads] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Spancil Hill - Paddy Reilly [00:09.55]Last night as I lay dreaming of pleasant days gone by [00:18.49]My mind being bent on rambling to Ireland I did fly [00:27.32]I stepped on board a vision and followed with the wind [00:35.91]When next I came to anchor at the cross near Spancill Hill [00:44.85]T'was on the 23rd June the day before the fair [00:53.57]When lreland's sons and daughters and friends assembled there [01:02.33]The young the old the brave the bold came their duty to fill [01:09.21] [01:10.47]At the parish church at Cluney a mile from Spancill Hill [01:19.74]I went to see my neighbors to see what they might say [01:28.49]The old ones were all dead and gone the young one's turning grey [01:37.19]I met the tailor Quigley he's bold as ever still [01:45.45]Sure he used to mend my britches when I lived at Spancill Hill [02:03.30]I paid a flying visit to my first and only love [02:11.82]She's fair as any lily and gentle as a dove [02:20.05]She threw her arms around me saying "Johnny I love you still" [02:28.51]As she's Nell the farmers daughter and the pride of Spancill Hill [02:37.75]I dreamt I held and kissed her as in the days of yore [02:45.84]I've Johnny you're only jokin' as many the time before [02:54.15]Then the cock he crew in the morning he crew both loud and shrill [03:02.48]When I awoke in California many miles from Spancil Hill