Spancil Hill-The Dubliners/Davey Arthur

[ti:Spancil Hill] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:25 Of The Best Irish Pub Songs - Volume 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Spancil Hill - The Dubliners/Davey Arthur [00:12.01]Last night as I lay dreaming of pleasant days gone by [00:19.60] [00:20.57]My mind being bent on rambling to Ireland I did fly [00:27.56] [00:29.45]I stepped on board a vision and I followed with a will [00:36.74] [00:37.83]Till next I came to anchor at the cross of Spancil Hill [00:45.70] [00:49.04]It being on the 23rd of June the day before the fair [00:56.15] [00:57.84]When lreland's sons and daughters and friends [01:03.78] [01:04.35]Assembled there [01:05.31] [01:06.78]The young the old the brave and the bold came their [01:12.22]Duty to fulfill [01:14.48] [01:15.12]At the parish church in Clooney a mile from Spancil [01:22.11]Hill [01:24.07] [01:27.08]I went to see me neighbors to see what they might say [01:35.20]The old ones were all dead and gone the young one's [01:42.03]Turning grey [01:43.44] [01:44.02]But I met the tailor Quigley he's as bould as ever [01:50.97] [01:52.54]Still [01:53.56]Ah he used to make my breetches when I lived in Spancil [01:59.55]Hill [01:59.90] [02:38.60]I paid a flying visit to my first and only love [02:45.67] [02:47.27]She's as white as any lily and as gentle as a dove [02:55.93]And she threw her arms around me saying Johnny I [03:03.02]Love you still [03:04.52] [03:05.10]Oh she's Nell the farmers daughter and the pride of [03:11.31]Spancil Hill [03:13.55] [03:16.62]I dreamt I held and kissed her as in the days of yore [03:23.82] [03:25.54]Ah Johnny you're only joking as many's the time [03:32.39]Before [03:33.79]Then the cock he crew in the morning he crew both loud [03:41.30]And shrill [03:42.80]I awoke in California many miles from Spancil Hill