Ballyhoe

You told me that you would come back some day to me at Ballyhoe
But never a word since you went away from me so long ago
The hours are long, the lonely days are drifting into years
Oh it’s getting late but I still wait with eyes growing dim with tears
Oh do you remember the hawthorn nuts we gathered every spring
Do you remember the reels we danced around the fairy ring
And do you remember a promise made beneath a chestnut tree
But best of all my artsome one do you remember me
I wander along by the lakeside now at sunset’s early glow
Just thinking of all the dreams I dreamed of you so long ago
The whispers come, the whispers go they echo over the sea
The foreign land and the foreign strands have stolen you from me
Oh do you remember the hawthorn nuts we gathered every spring
Do you remember the reels we danced around the fairy ring
And do you remember a promise made beneath a chestnut tree
But best of all my artsome one do you remember me
But best of all my artsome one do you remember me