Take Me Back To Castlebar-Tara

[ti:Take Me Back To Castlebar] [ar:Tara] [al:Traditional Folk Ballads From Ireland] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.30]Take Me Back To Castlebar - Tara [00:03.23] [00:05.07]I'm waiting for john murphy's van [00:06.97]To take me to the site [00:09.24]I've been working seven days a week [00:11.38]From morning to dark night [00:13.21]And when I get into the van [00:15.80]And gently close the door [00:18.04]The first thing that they ask me is [00:20.05]What I did the night before [00:22.55]Take me back to castlebar [00:24.65]In the county of mayo [00:26.62]It's the only place in ireland [00:28.98]I'm longing for to go [00:31.35]Where they greet you with a friendly smile [00:33.36]And they bid you time of day [00:35.45]When I set me foot in old mayo [00:37.57]I never more will stay [00:40.17]My dirty jack the ganger man [00:42.24]He talks about the times [00:44.20]Himself and old John Murphy [00:46.67]Worked deep down in the mines [00:48.69]He says he meets them often [00:50.79]At the dorchester hotel [00:53.05]If you want to get promotion [00:55.18]Get down and dig like hell [00:57.53]I'll take me back to castlebar [00:59.85]In the county of mayo [01:01.74]It's the only place in ireland [01:04.37]I'm longing for to go [01:06.18]Where they greet you with a friendly smile [01:08.86]And they bid you time of day [01:10.61]When I set me foot in old mayo [01:12.66]I never more will stay [01:15.44]Jack from connemara [01:17.49]When he gets in the hump [01:19.60]He talks about the money [01:21.34]He made while working on the lump [01:24.16]He blames old maggy Thatcher [01:25.99]And her government as well [01:28.58]He says he's made his money now [01:30.55]So they can go to hell [01:32.69]I'll take me back to castlebar [01:35.22]In the county of mayo [01:37.12]It's the only place in ireland [01:39.22]I'm longing for to go [01:41.73]Where they greet you with a friendly smile [01:44.15]And they bid you time of day [01:46.04]When I set me foot in old mayo [01:48.15]I never more will stray [01:50.49]There's another chap from Pakistan [01:52.89]No higher than a duck [01:54.84]He sells his wares upon the site [01:57.16]They fell off the back of a truck [01:59.32]He says he is a carpenter [02:01.48]And that might well be true [02:03.73]But I've never seen him working yet [02:05.91]For he is always in Berg [02:08.06]I'll take me back to castlebar [02:10.37]In the county of mayo [02:12.31]It's the only place in Ireland [02:14.39]I'm longing for to go [02:16.70]Where they greet you with a friendly smile [02:19.25]And they bid you time of day [02:21.16]When I set me foot in old mayo [02:23.32]I never more will stray [02:25.92]At the duke of york on saturday night [02:28.12]Mcgraley does remit [02:29.85]He says he first came over here in 1938 [02:34.29]That was the year before the war [02:36.88]If me memory serves me clear [02:39.00]For written on the factory wall [02:41.19]Was no Irish wanted here [02:43.38]I'll take me back to castlebar [02:45.55]In the county of mayo [02:47.71]It's the only place in Ireland [02:49.85]I'm longing for to go [02:52.36]Where they greet you with a friendly smile [02:54.48]And they bid you time of day [02:56.42]When I set my foot in old mayo [02:58.62]I never more will stray [03:01.13]I'll take me back to castlebar [03:03.22]In the county of mayo [03:05.15]It's the only place in Ireland [03:07.30]I'm longing for to go [03:09.88]Where they greet you with a friendly smile [03:12.28]And they bid you time of day [03:14.14]When I set my foot in old mayo [03:16.45]I never more will stray