Bow, wow, wow,

I AM the wind which breathes upon the sea,I am the wave of the ocean,I am the murmur of the billows,I am the ox of the seven combats,I am the vulture upon the rocks,I am a beam of the sun,I am the fairest of plants,I am a wild boar in valour,I am a salmon in…

This pig had roast meat,That pig had none;This pig went to the barn-door,And cry’d week, week, for more.

And I know my love dressed in a suit of blue,And if my Love leaves me, what will I do?And still she cried, “I love him the best,And a troubled mind, sure, can know no rest,”And still she cried, “Bonny boys are few,And if my Love leaves me, what will I do?”There is a dance…

Ambition’s greedy maw shun,And tread the path of innocence!Dread crooked ways and cheating,And be not like those hounds of Hell,Like prowling wolves awaiting,Which once upon my footsteps fell.An allalu mo wauleen,My little bag I treasured it;’Twas stuffed from string to sauleen,A thousand times I measured it!Should you ever reach Dungarvan,That wretched hole of dole and…

I had a large drake, the truth for to spake,My grandfather left me when going to die;He was merry and sound, and would weigh twenty pound,The universe round would I rove for his sake.Bad luck to the robber, be he drunken or sober,That murdered Nell Flaherty’s beautiful drake.His neck it was green, and rare to…

It’s all about a young man, and I’m going to tell you now,How he lately came a-courting of the Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe.Said he, “My pretty fair maid, will you come along with me,We’ll both go off together, and married we will be;We’ll join our hands in wedlock bands, I’m speaking to you…