Mursheen Durkin-Shannon Singers

[ti:Mursheen Durkin] [ar:Shannon Singers] [al:40 Irish Folk Ballads] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mursheen Durkin - Shannon Singers [00:04.71]In the days I went a courtin' [00:06.56]I was never tired resortin' [00:08.11] [00:09.05]To an alehouse or a playhouse [00:11.12]And many's the house beside [00:13.13]But I told me brother Seamus [00:15.02]I'd go off and be right famous [00:17.53]And I for i be return [00:19.26]Again till I'd roam the world wide [00:22.04]Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin [00:23.88]I'm sick and tired of workin' [00:26.16]No more I'll dig the prates [00:28.17]And no longer I'll be fooled [00:30.46]As sure as me name is Carney [00:32.57]I'll be off to Californy [00:34.79]Where instead of diggin' prates [00:36.75]I'll be diggin' lumps of gold [00:39.11]I've courted girls in Blarney [00:41.15]In Kanturk and in Killarney [00:43.27]In Passage and in Queenstown [00:45.57]That is the Cobh of Cork [00:47.71]Goodbye to all this pleasure [00:49.86]And I'll be off to take me leisure [00:51.99]And the next time that you hear [00:53.53]From me will be a letter from New York [00:56.55]Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin [00:58.42]Oh I'm sick and tired of workin' [01:00.52]No more I'll dig the prates [01:02.65]And no longer I'll be fooled [01:04.92]As sure as me name is Carney [01:07.00]I'll be off to Californy [01:09.26]Where instead of diggin' prates [01:11.25]I'll be diggin' lumps of gold [01:13.56] [01:18.18]Goodbye to all the girls at home [01:20.19]I'm going far across the foam [01:22.36]To try and make me fortune in far America [01:26.47]There's gold and jewels in plenty [01:28.44] [01:28.97]For the poor and for the gentry [01:30.82]And when I return again [01:32.84]I never more will say [01:35.25]Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin [01:37.29]Sure I'm sick and tired of workin' [01:39.35]No more I'll dig the prates [01:41.39]And no longer I'll be fooled [01:43.65]As sure as me name is Carney [01:45.93]I'll be off to Californy [01:47.96]Where instead of diggin' prates [01:49.86]I'll be diggin' lumps of gold [01:52.19]Where instead of diggin' prates [01:54.02]I'll be diggin' lumps of gold