Tell me the legends of long ago When the kings and queens would dance In the realm of the Black Rose Play me the melodies I want to know So I can teach my children, oh
Pray, tell me the story of young Cuchulainn How his eyes were dark his expression sullen And how he'd fight and always won And how they cried when he was fallen
Oh, tell me the story of the queen of this land And how her sons died at her own hand And how fools obey commands Oh, tell me the legends of long ago
Where the mountains of Mourne Come down to the sea Will she no come back to me? Will she no come back to me?
Oh Shenandoah, I hear you calling Far away you rolling river Roll down the mountain side On down, on down go Lassie go
Oh, tell me the legends of long ago When the kings and queens would dance In the realms of the Black Rose And play me the melodies so that I might know And I can tell my children, oh
My Roisin Dubh is my one and only true love It was a joy, that Joyce brought to me While William Butler waits And Oscar, he's going wild
Ah sure, Brendan where have you been? Looking for a girl with green eyes My dark Rosaleen is my colleen That Georgie knows best
But Van is the man Starvation once again Drinking whiskey in the jar, oh Synge's playboy of the western World
As Shaw, Sean I was born and reared there Where the Mountains of Mourne Come down to the sea Is such a long, long way from Tipperary