From 3dfa0f17f48bff69d52a91d4a989e91711ece97b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "benoit.darroux@gmail.com" Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 11:09:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?[Beno=C3=AEt]=20c'est=20la=20course=20!?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- songs/Traditional/Galway_Races.sg | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+) diff --git a/songs/Traditional/Galway_Races.sg b/songs/Traditional/Galway_Races.sg index e411d5c..9095ff2 100644 --- a/songs/Traditional/Galway_Races.sg +++ b/songs/Traditional/Galway_Races.sg @@ -2,5 +2,63 @@ \songcolumns{2} \beginsong{Galway Races}[by=Traditional] +\beginverse +\[Do]As I went down to Galway Town +To seek for recreation +On the\[Lam] seventeenth of August +Me\[Sol] mind being eleva\[Do]ted +There were passengers assem\[Sol]bled +With their\[Lam] tickets at the\[Do] station +And me eyes began to\[Mim] dazzle +And they\[Lam] off to see the races +\endverse + +\beginchorus +With me\[Do] wack fol the\[Sol] do fol +The\[Lam] diddle idle day +\endchorus + +\beginverse +There were passengers from Limerick +And passengers from Nenagh +The boys of Connemara +And the Clare unmarried maiden +There were people from Cork City +Who were loyal, true and faithful +Who brought home the Fenian prisoners +From dying in foreign nations +\endverse + +\beginverse +And it's there you'll see the pipers +And the fiddlers competing +And the sporting wheel of fortune +And the four and twenty quarters +And there's others without scruple +Pelting wattles at poor Maggie +And her father well contented +And he gazing at his daughter +\endverse + +\beginverse +And it's there you'll see the jockeys +And they mounted on so stably +The pink, the blue, the orange, and green +The colors of our nation +The time it came for starting +All the horses seemed impatient +Their feet they hardly touched the ground +The speed was so amazing! +\endverse + +\beginverse +There was half a million people there +Of all denominations +The Catholic, the Protestant, the Jew, the Presbyterian +Yet there was no animosity +No matter what persuasion +But failte hospitality +Inducing fresh acquaintance +\endverse \endsong \ No newline at end of file