Bantry Bay-Cavan O'Connor

[ti:Bantry Bay] [ar:Cavan O'Connor] [al:My Wild Irish Rose] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Bantry Bay - Cavan O'Connor [00:08.23]As i'm sitting all alone [00:11.34]In the gloaming [00:13.39] [00:15.33]It might have been but yesterday [00:19.38] [00:21.93]That we watched [00:23.13]The fisher sails all homing [00:27.13] [00:28.25]Till the little herring [00:30.60]Fleet at anchor lay [00:32.99] [00:34.30]Then the fisher girls [00:36.41]With baskets a swinging [00:39.37] [00:40.79]Came running down the old stone way [00:45.23] [00:47.02]Every lassie to [00:48.88]Her sailor lad was singing [00:52.48] [00:53.93]A welcome to bantry bay [00:59.07] [01:06.33]Then we heard the [01:07.91]Pipers sweet note running [01:13.00] [01:13.95]And all the lassies turned to hear [01:18.34] [01:20.20]As they mingled with [01:21.96]A soft voice crooning [01:25.19] [01:26.04]Till the music floated [01:28.33]Down the wooden pier [01:30.95] [01:32.68]Save you kindly colleens all [01:36.25]Said the piper [01:38.14] [01:39.05]Hands across the trip while i play [01:43.69] [01:45.92]And a tender sound of song and [01:49.47]Merry dancing [01:51.97] [01:53.88]Stole softly over bantry bay [02:00.08] [02:04.12]As i'm sitting alone [02:07.67]In the gloaming [02:10.26] [02:11.90]The shadows of the past draw near [02:16.97] [02:18.99]And i see the loving faces round me [02:25.09] [02:25.80]That used to glad the old brown pier [02:31.28] [02:33.31]Some are gone upon their last homing [02:38.01] [02:40.35]Some are left [02:42.73] [02:43.52]But they are old and gray [02:48.18] [02:49.91]And we're waiting for [02:51.90]The tide in the gloaming [02:56.44] [02:58.57]To sail upon the great highway [03:03.20] [03:05.18]To the land of rest unending [03:11.19] [03:14.63]All peacefully from bantry bay