Cavan Girl-Mick Galvin

[ti:Cavan Girl] [ar:Mick Galvin] [al:The Greatest Ever Irish Pub Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.06]Cavan Girl - Mick Galvin [00:02.88] [00:10.49]As I walk the road from Killeshandra [00:15.25] [00:15.88]Weary I sit down [00:19.11] [00:20.31]For it's twelve long miles around the lake [00:25.19]To get to Cavan Town [00:29.06] [00:30.04]Though Oughter and the road I go [00:34.53] [00:35.06]Once seemed beyond compare [00:39.01] [00:39.78]Now I curse the time it takes to reach [00:44.60]My Cavan girl so fair [00:48.59] [00:49.50]The autumn shades are on the leaves [00:54.60]Trees will soon be bare [00:58.24] [00:59.26]Each red-coat leaf around me seems [01:04.21]The colour of her hair [01:08.31] [01:09.00]My gaze retreat defies my feet [01:13.98]And once again I sigh [01:17.96] [01:18.71]When the broken pool of sky reminds [01:23.89]The colour of her eyes [01:27.81] [01:37.97]At the Cavan cross each Sunday morning [01:43.20]It's there she can be found [01:47.30] [01:47.92]She seems to have the eye of every [01:53.13]Boy in Cavan Town [01:56.76] [01:57.51]If my luck will hold [02:00.20]I'll have the golden summer of her smile [02:06.92] [02:07.44]And to break the hearts of Cavan men [02:12.24]She'll talk to me a while [02:16.19] [02:26.76]So next Sunday evening finds me homeward [02:32.06]Killeshandra Bound [02:35.93] [02:36.66]To work the week till I return [02:41.54]To court in Cavan Town [02:45.65] [02:46.43]When asked if she would be my bride [02:51.35]At least she is not say no [02:54.27] [02:55.94]So next Sunday morning 'rouse myself [03:01.07]And back to her I'll go [03:05.50]So next Sunday morning 'rouse myself [03:10.80]And back to her I'll go