Hills of Glenswilly-Paddy'S Dream

[ti:Hills of Glenswilly] [ar:Paddy'S Dream] [al:Folk Songs of Ireland] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hills of Glenswilly - Paddy'S Dream [00:10.70]Attention pay my countrymen and hear my native news [00:19.55] [00:20.72]Although my song is sorrowful I hope you'll me excuse [00:29.50] [00:30.66]I left my peaceful residence a foreign land to see [00:39.35] [00:40.39]I bid farewell to Donegal likewise to Glenswilly [00:48.29] [01:00.51]No more beside the sycamore I'll hear the blackbird sing [01:09.10] [01:10.48]No more to meet the blithe cuckoo to welcome back the spring [01:19.07] [01:20.31]No more I'll plow your fertile fields a chuisle geal mo chroIdhe [01:29.45] [01:30.01]On foreign soil I'm doomed to toil far far from Glenswilly [01:39.29] [01:50.41]God bless you dark old Donegal my own dear native land [01:58.97] [02:00.26]In dreams I've often seen your hills and your towering mountains grand [02:09.03] [02:10.16]But the last three thousand miles that stretch between those hills and me [02:19.68]I'm a poor forlorn exile cast far far from Glenswilly [02:28.94] [02:40.03]May peace and plenty rains play upon lucks we shores [02:49.03] [02:49.82]And may plenty nest about upon your heads what's more [02:58.95] [02:59.88]And may the time to come along when I return to be [03:09.44]And I'm leaving my profile new home and I'm in Glenswilly