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\beginsong{Galway Races}[by=Traditional] |
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\beginverse |
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\[Do]As I went down to Galway Town |
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To seek for recreation |
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On the\[Lam] seventeenth of August |
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Me\[Sol] mind being eleva\[Do]ted |
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There were passengers assem\[Sol]bled |
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With their\[Lam] tickets at the\[Do] station |
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And me eyes began to\[Mim] dazzle |
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And they\[Lam] off to see the races |
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\endverse |
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\beginchorus |
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With me\[Do] wack fol the\[Sol] do fol |
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The\[Lam] diddle idle day |
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\endchorus |
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\beginverse |
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There were passengers from Limerick |
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And passengers from Nenagh |
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The boys of Connemara |
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And the Clare unmarried maiden |
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There were people from Cork City |
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Who were loyal, true and faithful |
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Who brought home the Fenian prisoners |
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From dying in foreign nations |
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\endverse |
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\beginverse |
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And it's there you'll see the pipers |
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And the fiddlers competing |
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And the sporting wheel of fortune |
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And the four and twenty quarters |
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And there's others without scruple |
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Pelting wattles at poor Maggie |
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And her father well contented |
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And he gazing at his daughter |
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\endverse |
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\beginverse |
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And it's there you'll see the jockeys |
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And they mounted on so stably |
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The pink, the blue, the orange, and green |
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The colors of our nation |
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The time it came for starting |
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All the horses seemed impatient |
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Their feet they hardly touched the ground |
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The speed was so amazing! |
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\endverse |
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\beginverse |
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There was half a million people there |
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Of all denominations |
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The Catholic, the Protestant, the Jew, the Presbyterian |
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Yet there was no animosity |
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No matter what persuasion |
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But failte hospitality |
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Inducing fresh acquaintance |
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\endverse |
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\endsong |