Muirsheen Durkin

In the days I went a courtin'

I was never tired resortin'

To the ale house or the playhouse

Or many's a house beside

I told me brother Seamus

"I'll go off and go right famous

And before I come back again

I'll roam the world wide"

So goodbye Muirsheen Durkin

Sure I'm sick and tired of workin'

No more I'll dig the praties

No longer I'll be fooled

For sure as me name is Carney

I'll be off to Californy

Where instead of diggin' praties

I'll be diggin' lumps of gold

I've courted girls in Blarney

In Kinturk and in Killarney

In Passage and in Queenstown

That is the Cobh of Cork

Goodbye to all this pleasure

For I'm goin' to take me leisure

And the next time you will hear from me

Is a letter from New York

So goodbye Muirsheen Durkin

Sure I'm sick and tired of workin'

No more I'll dig the praties

No longer I'll be fooled

For sure as me name is Carney

I'll be off to Californy

Where instead of diggin' praties

I'll be diggin' lumps of gold

Goodbye to all the boys at home

I'm sailin' far across the foam

To try and make me fortune

In far Americay

There's gold and money plenty

For the poor and for the gentry

And when I come back again

I never more will say

Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin

Sure I'm sick and tired of workin'

No more I'll dig the praties

No longer I'll be fooled

For sure as me name is Carney

I'll be off to Californy

Where instead of diggin' praties

I'll be diggin' lumps of gold