The Dubliners - Muirsheen Durkin lyrics

[The Dubliners - Muirsheen Durkin lyrics]

In the days I went a-courtin'
I was never tired resorting
To an alehouse or a playhouse
And many's the house besides
But, I told me brother Séamus
I'd go off and be right famous
And I never would return again till
I'd roam the world wide

Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin
Sure I'm sick and tired of workin'
No more, I'll dig the praties and no longer
I'll be fooled as sure as me name is Carney
I'll be off to Californy
Where instead of diggin' praties
I'll be diggin' lumps of gold

I've courted girls in Blarney, in Kanturk
And in Killarney
In Passage and in Queenstown that
Is the Cobh of Cork


Goodbye to all this pleasure
I'll be off to take me leisure
And the next time that you hear from me
Will be a letter from New York

Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin
Sure I'm sick and tired of workin'
No more, I'll dig the praties and no longer
I'll be fooled as sure as me name is Carney
I'll be off to Californy
Where instead of diggin' praties
I'll be diggin' lumps of gold

Goodbye to the girls at home
I'm going far across the foam
To try and make me fortune in far Americay
There's gold and jewels and plenty for
The poor and for the gentry
And when I return again I never more will say

Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin
Sure I'm sick and tired of workin' no more
I'll dig the praties and no
Longer I'll be fooled
As sure as me name is Carney
I'll be off to Californy
Where instead of diggin' praties
I'll be diggin' lumps of gold

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