Spancil Hill-The Wolfe Tones

[ti:Spancil Hill] [ar:The Wolfe Tones] [al:The Greatest Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Spancil Hill - The Wolfe Tones [00:04.48]Last night as I lay dreaming of pleasant days gone by [00:12.80] [00:13.48]My mind being bent on rambling to Ireland I did fly [00:21.64] [00:22.28]I stepped on board a vision and I followed with a will [00:29.26] [00:30.72]Till next I came to anchor at the cross of Spancil Hill [00:38.54] [00:39.65]It being on the 23rd of June the day before the fair [00:48.02] [00:48.83]When lreland's sons and daughters and friends [00:54.55]Assembled there [00:57.68]The young the old the brave and the bold came their [01:02.44]Duty to fulfill [01:05.05] [01:06.27]At the parish church in Clooney a mile from Spancil [01:13.34]Hill [01:14.07] [01:15.27]I went to see me neighbors to see what they might say [01:23.34] [01:24.37]The old ones were all dead and gone the young one's [01:30.48]Turning grey [01:31.92] [01:33.11]But I met the tailor Quigley he's as bould as ever [01:40.30]Still [01:40.63] [01:41.74]Ah he used to make my breetches when I lived in Spancil [01:49.13]Hill [01:49.90] [01:59.61]I take a flying visit to my one and only love [02:08.15] [02:08.84]She's as white as any lily and as gentle as a dove [02:17.76]And she threw her arms around me saying "Johnny I [02:23.59]Love you still" [02:25.35] [02:26.26]She's Nell the farmers daughter and the pride of [02:32.60]Spancil Hill [02:34.36] [02:35.32]I dreamt I held and kissed her as in the days of yore [02:43.06] [02:44.43]Say "Johnny you're only joking as many's the time [02:51.25]Before" [02:51.92] [02:53.06]Then the cock he crew in the morning he crew both loud [03:00.07]And shrill [03:01.88]I awoke in California many miles from Spancil Hill