Lovely Leitrim-Tara

[ti:Lovely Leitrim] [ar:Tara] [al:Folk Ballads & Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.43]Lovely Leitrim - Tara [00:09.30]Last night I had a pleasant dream [00:13.59]I woke up with a smile [00:16.69] [00:18.10]I dreamt that I was back again [00:21.81] [00:22.40]In dear old Erin's Isle [00:25.63] [00:26.87]I thought I saw Lough Allen's [00:30.70]Banks in the valleys down below [00:35.04] [00:35.70]It was my lovely Leitrim where [00:39.60] [00:40.11]The Shannon water's flow [00:43.65] [00:44.56]I stood enchanted at the scene [00:48.95]Of grandeur and of light [00:52.00] [00:53.29]I hard for care left for Kerry town [00:57.73]Before the dark of night [01:00.85] [01:02.08]I passed Sheemore that fairy [01:05.54]Hill where flowers wildly grow [01:10.59]And I passed the grave of Finn [01:13.91]McCool where the Shannon water's flow [01:19.12] [01:19.96]The next I saw was Finnea Town [01:23.99]With her ancient abbey walls [01:27.70] [01:28.50]The preaching of her holy [01:31.88]Monks re echoes through her halls [01:36.64] [01:37.20]I stood with reverence on the [01:41.16]Spot reluctant for to go [01:45.55] [01:46.11]From the town of saints and sages [01:49.67]Where the Shannon water's flow [01:54.09] [02:03.88]I've travelled far from this great [02:07.45]Land from the east and to the west [02:11.95] [02:12.51]But of all the islands I have seen [02:17.15]I love my own the best [02:20.77] [02:21.35]And if ever I return again [02:25.61]There's one place I will go [02:29.06] [02:29.70]It will be my lovely Leitrim [02:34.75]Where the Shannon water's flow [02:38.98]