O Donal Óg when you cross the ocean Take me with you when you are going At fair or market you'll be well looked after And you shall sleep with the Greek king's daughter
O lad of fairness, O lad of redness O lad so fair my mind's in sadness When I think of another in your name calling The top and the bottom of my hair starts falling
My mother ordered me to shun you Today, tomorrow and on Sunday Too late, in vain o'er spilt milk grieving Closing the door on a bygone thieving
O you said you would meet me, but you were lying Beside the sheep shed as day was dying I whistled and called you, twelve times repeating But all that I heard was the young lambs bleating
If you come at all, come when stars are peeping Rap the door that makes no squeaking My mother will ask you to name your people And I'll say you're a sigh of the night wind weeping
I got the first kiss and from no craven I got the second atop the stairway The third kiss came as down you laid me But for that one night, be still a maiden
The last time I saw you was a Sunday evening Beside the altar as I was kneeling It was of Christ's passion that I was thinking But my mind was on you and my own heart bleeding
For you took what's before me and what's behind me Took east and west when you wouldn't mind me Sun, moon and stars from me you've taken And God as well if I'm not mistaken