Greenfields Együttes - Galway Races dalszöveg (lyrics)

As I roved out through Galway town
To seek for recreation
On the seventeenth of August
My mind being elevated
There were multitudes assembled
With their tickets at the station
My eyes began to dazzle and
I’m going to see races
With me whack, fol the do
Fol the did-de ley, i-dle ay

It’s there you’ll see the gamblers
The thimbles and the garters
And the sporting Wheel of Fortune
With the four and twenty quarters
There were others without scruple
Pelting wattles at poor Maggy
And her father well contented
And he looking at his daughter
With me whack, fol the do
Fol the did-de ley, i-dle ay

There were passengers from Limerick
And passengers from Nenagh
The boys from Connemara
And the Clare unmarried maidens
And the people from Cork city
Who were loyal, true and faithful
That brought home Fenian prisoners
From dying in foreign nations
With me whack, fol the do
Fol the did-de ley, i-dle ay

It’s there you’ll see the fiddlers
And pipers competing
The nimble-footed dancers
And they tripping on the daisies
And others crying "Cigars and lights
And bills of all the races
With the colours of the jockeys
And the prize and horses’ ages"
With me whack, fol the do
Fol the did-de ley, i-dle ay

It’s there you’d see the jockeys
And they mounted so stately
The pinks, the blues, the Irisher green
The emblem of our nation
When the bell was rung for starting
All the horses seemed impatient
I thought they’d never stood on ground
Their speed was so amazing
With me whack, fol the do
Fol the did-de ley, i-dle ay

There was half half a million people
There of all denominations
The Chatolic, the Protestant
The Jew and Presbyterian
There was yet no animosity
No matter what persuasion
But sport and hospitality
Inducing fresh acquaintance
With me whack, fol the do
Fol the did-de ley, i-dle ay