The Dubliners - Cavan Girl lyrics

As I walk the road from Killeshandra
Weary I sit down
For it's twelve long miles around the
Lake to get to Cavan Town
Though Oughter and the road I
Go once seemed beyond compare
Now I curse the time it takes to
Reach my Cavan girl so fair

The autumn shades are on the leaves
The trees will soon be bare
Each red-coat leaf around me seems
The colour of her hair my gaze retreats
Defies my feet and once again I sigh
For the broken pool of sky reminds
Me the colour of her eyes

At the Cavan cross each Sunday morning
There she can be found
And she seems to have the eye
Of every boy in Cavan town
If my luck will hold I'd share
The golden summer of her smile
And to break the hearts of Cavan
Men she'll walk with me awhile

So next Sunday evening finds
Me homeward Killeshandra bound
To work the week till I return
To court in Cavan Town
When asked if she would be my bride
At least she'd not said no
So next Sunday morning
'rouse myself and back to her I'll go