Cavan Girl-Barnbrack

[ti:Cavan Girl] [ar:Barnbrack] [al:Three Of The Best] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cavan Girl - Barnbrack [00:12.24]As I walk the road from Killeshandra [00:17.96] [00:18.53]Weary I sit down [00:21.91] [00:22.91]For it's twelve long miles around the lake [00:28.23]To get to Cavan Town [00:32.89] [00:33.67]Though Oughter and the road [00:37.37]I go once seemed beyond compare [00:43.32] [00:43.83]Now I curse the time it takes to [00:47.91]Reach my Cavan girl so fair [00:53.59] [00:54.50]The autumn shades are on the leaves [00:59.16] [01:00.06]The trees will soon be bare [01:03.89] [01:04.65]Each red coat leaf around me [01:08.82]Seems the colours of her hair [01:14.87]My gaze replaced defies my feet [01:20.47]And once again I sigh [01:25.40]For the broken pool of sky reminds me [01:31.70]The colour of her eyes [01:35.52] [01:46.36]At the Cavan 'cross each Sunday morning [01:51.18] [01:52.24]There she can be found [01:55.68] [01:56.64]And she seems to have the eye of every boy [02:03.50]In Cavan Town [02:06.34] [02:07.16]If my luck will hold [02:09.81]I'll have the golden summer of her smile [02:16.72] [02:17.51]And to break the hearts of Cavan men [02:22.30] [02:23.48]She'll talk to me awhile [02:27.11] [02:28.06]So next Sunday evening [02:30.90]Finds me homeward Killeshandra bound [02:37.71] [02:38.38]To work the week till I return [02:43.67]To court in Cavan Town [02:47.94] [02:48.70]When I asked if she would be my bride [02:54.13]At least she'd not say no [02:58.43] [02:59.22]So next Sunday morning 'rouse myself [03:04.31] [03:05.22]And back to her I'll go