Mayo Moon

'Neath the moonlight where we used to walk I left you standing there By the river mouth there by the sea I left you alone And I could swear that my sorrow you could see from my shadow So I ran all alone in the dark By the bright moonlit ocean I gazed towards my fortune That awaits me in far off New York Now the coffin ship waits by the quay To take me away from here As the hungry march up the gangway There's an ache in my heart So farewell to her waters Her sons and her daughters My friends and the girl that I left In our cabin so cold cry the young and the old Where I lay in the damp and I slept And I dreamt that we met by the side of your ocean And we talked about the days gone by Fare thee well, fare thee well 'Til we meet again, and we'll walk 'neath a Mayo moon. Tossed is the wreck by the storm And the water is creeping in And the sails have been ripped from the mast And the journey is o'er How this wreck could survive this treacherous tide With the broad western ocean to cross With no land for to guide on the water so wide By the Devil we'll surely be lost Sickness has ravaged the boat And bodies lay all around And the dead we have buried at sea Thought their ghosts linger on And I pray to the lord that my soul to him walks When my body consigns to the deep As the boat slips down under My minds final wander, I close my eyes and I sleep