Bing Crosby - Back To Donegal lyrics
rate meIt seems like only yesterday<br />
I sailed from out of cork<br />
A wanderer from Erin's isle<br />
I landed in New York<br />
<br />
There wasn't a soul to greet me there<br />
A stranger on your shore<br />
But Irish luck was with me here<br />
And riches came galore<br />
<br />
And now that I'm going back again<br />
To dear old Erin's isle<br />
My friends will meet me on the pier<br />
And greet me with a smile<br />
<br />
Their faces, sure, I've almost forgot<br />
I've been so long away<br />
But me mother will introduce them all<br />
And this to me will say<br />
<br />
Shake hands with your uncle mike, me boy<br />
And here is your sister, Kate<br />
And there's the girl you used to swing<br />
Down by the garden gate<br />
<br />
Shake hands with all of the neighbors<br />
And kiss the Colleens all<br />
You're as welcome as the flowers in may<br />
To dear old Donegal<br />
<br />
They'll give a party when I go home<br />
They'll come from near and far<br />
They'll line the roads for miles and miles<br />
With Irish jauntin' cars<br />
<br />
The spirits will flow and we'll be gay<br />
We'll fill your hearts with joy<br />
The piper will play an Irish reel<br />
To greet the Yankee boy<br />
<br />
We'll dance and sing the whole night long<br />
Such fun as never seen<br />
The lads will be decked in corduroy<br />
The Colleens wearin' green<br />
<br />
There'll be thousands there that I never saw<br />
I've been so long away<br />
But me mother will introduce them all<br />
And this to me will say<br />
<br />
Shake hands with your uncle mike, me boy<br />
And here is your sister, Kate<br />
And there's the girl you used to swing<br />
Down by the garden gate<br />
<br />
Shake hands with all of the neighbors<br />
And kiss the Colleens all<br />
You're as welcome as the flowers in may<br />
To dear old Donegal<br />
<br />
Meet Branigan, Fannigan, Milligan, Gilligan<br />
Duffy, McCuffy, Malachy, Mahone<br />
Rafferty, Lafferty, Donnelly, Connelly<br />
Dooley, O'Hooley, Muldowney, Malone<br />
<br />
Madigan, Cadigan, Lanihan, Flanihan<br />
Fagan, O'Hagan, O'Hoolihan, Flynn<br />
Shanihan, Manihan, Fogarty, Hogarty<br />
Kelly, O'Kelly, McGuinness, McGuinn<br /><br />
