Slieve Gallen Braes

As I went a walking one morning in May

To view your fair valleys and mountains so fair

I was thinking of those flowers all falling to decay

That bloom around you bonnie, bonnie Sliabh Gallen Braes

How often in the morning with my dog and my gun

I like to go a roving for joy and for fun

But those days are all over and I must go away

So farewell unto you bonnie, bonnie Sliabh Gallen Braes

And how often in the evening when the sun was in the west

I roved hand in hand with the one I loved best

But the hopes of youth have ended and now I’m far away

So farewell unto you bonnie, bonnie Sliabh Gallen Braes.

It wasn’t for the want of employment at home

That caused the sons and daughters in sorrow for to roam

But the rents were getting higher and we could no longer stay

So farewell unto you bonnie, bonnie Sliabh Gallen Braes

But the rents were getting higher and we could no longer stay

So farewell unto you bonnie, bonnie Sliabh Gallen Braes

So farewell unto you bonnie, bonnie Sliabh Gallen Braes