Teddy O'Neill

I dreamt all last night Oh what's come of my dreaming I'd die if I thought t'would come surely to pass I dreamt while the tears down my pillow were rolling That Teddy was courting another fair lass And didn't I wake with a weeping and a wailing The pain in my heart was too deep to conceal My mother cried Nora dear, what is your ailing But all I could answer was, Teddy O'Neill I see the old cabin beyond the wee boreen I see the old crossroads where we used to dance How I rambled the lane where he called me his stoirin And my girlish heart was so full of romance But now all around it's all sad and dreary All dark, all silent, no piper, no reel Not even the sun through the casement shines cheery Since I lost my own darling, Teddy O'Neill I remember the day when the big ship was sailing And the time it had come for my love to depart How I cried like a child; oh goodbye to you Teddy With a tear on my cheek and a stone in my heart He said t'was to better his fate he went roving But what would be gold to the joy I would feel If he'd only come back to me tender and loving Yet poor, but my own darling, Teddy O'Neill Yet poor, but my own darling, Teddy O'Neill