Here we are we've come to call With pipes and flutes and fiddles and all In case of death we've even brought a keener So, if you're glum and feeling down Just feel like us and act the clown and soon There'll be a change in your demeanour
I put me money on a horse today For with the race he'd run away Or so a friend that's in the know he told me Twenty lengths ahead at most He proudly cantered pass the post But, woe was me, he lost the bloomin' jockey!
Now of all the places I have seen From China to the Caribbean Are all across the goat compared to Ireland From Bally Castle to Tralie, the Corup to the Liffy There's no where else on earth but like this island
In Hollywood I long to be No, not the place across the sea But in county Wickloe, Ireland's lovely garden Where no pretenders will you find But decent people warm and kind And flocks of friendly sheep into the bargain
For your ills don't take a pill But take it down the road, the hills And listen to the larks lovely warbling In the evening in the company With music in the key of E You'll be dancing Kerry sets until the morning