Anna Liffey<br />
'Twas down by Anna Liffey<br />
My love and I did stray<br />
Where in the good old slushy mud<br />
The seagulls sport and play<br />
We've got the whiff of ray and chips<br />
And Mary softly sighed<br />
Oh John won't you come,<br />
For a wan and wan<br />
Down by the Liffey side<br />
<br />
Well up along by George's Street<br />
The loving pair did view<br />
And Mary swanked it like a queen<br />
In a skirt of navy blue<br />
Her hat was newly turned<br />
And her blouse was newly dyed<br />
So you couldn't bate her amber locks<br />
Down by the Liffey side<br />
<br />
And on her old melodeon<br />
How sweetly could she play<br />
She played goodbye and do not sigh<br />
And down by Texas Way<br />
And when she turned Sinn Feiner<br />
I nearly burst with pride<br />
For to hear her sing the 'Soldier's song'<br />
Down by the Liffey side<br />
<br />
On Sunday morning to Meath Street<br />
Together we will go<br />
And up to Father Murphy there<br />
We both will make our vow<br />
He'll join our hands in wedlock bands<br />
And soon we'll be outside<br />
For a whole afternoon on our honeymoon<br />
Down by the Liffey side<br />
<br />
And we'll have little children<br />
And rear them neat and clean<br />
To shout up the Republic<br />
And to sing about Sinn Fein<br />
They'll do what their old fellow did<br />
Who England's power divide<br />
We'll send them off to fight The Saxon Hun<br />
Down by the Liffey side