Dubliners - Anna Liffey lyrics

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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