The Cavan Girl-Barnbrack

[ti:Cavan Girl] [ar:Barnbrack] [al:Love's Old Sweet Song] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Cavan Girl - Barnbrack [00:10.95]As I walk the road from Killeshandra [00:16.93] [00:17.50]Weary I sit down [00:20.40] [00:21.61]For it's twelve long miles around the lake [00:27.37]To get to Cavan Town [00:31.39] [00:32.28]Though Oughter and the road [00:36.00]I go once seemed beyond compare [00:41.81] [00:42.49]Now I curse the time it takes to [00:46.83]Reach my Cavan girl so fair [00:52.34] [00:53.10]The autumn shades are on the leaves [00:58.84]The trees will soon be bare [01:02.72] [01:03.37]Each red-coat leaf around me [01:07.60]Seems the colours of her hair [01:13.09] [01:13.70]My gaze replaced defies my feet [01:19.19]And once again I sigh [01:23.66] [01:24.21]For the broken pool of sky reminds me [01:29.23] [01:29.92]The colour of her eyes [01:34.13] [01:45.02]At the Cavan cross each Sunday morning [01:49.90] [01:50.94]There she can be found [01:54.48] [01:55.38]And she seems to have the eye of every boy [02:01.87]In Cavan Town [02:05.02] [02:05.77]If my luck will hold [02:08.47]I'll have the golden summer of her smile [02:15.37] [02:16.23]And to break the hearts of Cavan men [02:21.02] [02:22.14]She'll talk to me awhile [02:25.84] [02:26.64]So next Sunday evening [02:29.65]Finds me homeward Killeshandra bound [02:36.12] [02:37.22]To work the week till I return [02:42.26]To court in Cavan Town [02:46.51] [02:47.50]When I asked if she would be my bride [02:52.97]At least she'd not say no [02:57.34] [02:57.95]So next Sunday morning 'rouse myself [03:02.93] [03:03.78]And back to her I'll go