Spancil Hill-International Pub Ensemble

[ti:Spancil Hill] [ar:International Pub Ensemble] [al:50 Irish & British Pub Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Spancil Hill - International Pub Ensemble [00:10.54]Last night as i lay dreaming of pleasant days gone by [00:17.81] [00:19.38]Me mind being bent on rambling to ireland i did fly [00:27.04] [00:28.09]I stepped on board a vision and i followed with a will [00:35.74] [00:36.63]Till next i came to anchor at the cross at spancil hill [00:43.93] [00:45.44]It being on the twenty third of june the day before the fair [00:52.64] [00:54.06]When ireland's sons and daughters and friends assembled there [01:01.70] [01:02.55]The young the old the brave and the bold came there duty to fulfill [01:09.83] [01:10.97]At the parish church in clooney a mile from spancil hill [01:18.80] [01:19.70]I went to see me neighbors to see what they might say [01:27.48] [01:28.56]The old ones were all dead and gone the young ones turning gray [01:36.04] [01:37.02]But i met the tailor quigley he's as bold as ever still [01:44.32] [01:45.29]Ah he used to mend me britches when i lived in spancil hill [01:53.56] [02:02.97]I paid a flying visit to my first and only love [02:10.25] [02:11.37]She's as white as any lily gentle as a dove [02:18.74] [02:19.73]And she threw her arms around me saying johnny i love you still [02:26.98] [02:27.88]As she's nell the farmer's daughter and the pride of spancil hill [02:35.66] [02:36.57]I dreamt i held and kissed her as in the days of yore [02:43.98] [02:45.02]I've johnny you're only jokin' as many's the time before [02:52.43] [02:53.08]Then the cock he crew in the morning he crew both loud and shrill [03:00.65] [03:01.45]I awoke in california many miles from spancil hill