Dubliners - Cavan Girl lyrics

rate me

As I walk the road from Killeshandra weary I sit down

For it's twelve long miles around the lake to get to

Cavan Town

Though Oughter and the road I go once seemed beyond

Compare

Now I curse the time it takes to reach my Cavan girl so

Fair

The autumn shades are on the leaves, the trees will

Soon be bare

Each red-coat leaf around me seems the colours of her

Hair

My gaze retreats defies my feet and once again I sigh

For the broken pool of sky reminds me, the colour of

Her eyes

At the Cavan cross each Sunday morning, there she can

Be found

And she seems to have the eye of every boy in Cavan

Town

If my luck will hold I'll have the golden summer of her

Smile

And to break the hearts of Cavan men she'll walk with

Me awhile

So next Sunday evening finds me homeward - Killeshandra

Bound -

To work the week till I return and court in Cavan Town

When asked if she would be my bride, at least she'd not

Say no

So next Sunday morning 'rouse myself and back to her

I'll go