Darlin' Girl From Clare - Brendan O'Dowda

[00:00.0]Darlin' Girl From Clare - Brendan O'Dowda
[00:06.6]We were sitting on the wall upon a Sunday
[00:09.92]To watch the girls go by
[00:13.21]And a'thinking we'd be marrit to one one day
[00:16.47]When a colleen caught our eye
[00:19.7]Oh man she was the makings of a fairy
[00:23.05]She made each boy'o swear
[00:26.26]There's not one girl in this wide wide world
[00:29.83]Like the darling girl from Clare
[00:32.96]Now every man has got the finest plan
[00:36.47]You'd ever see now barring me now
[00:40.13]Every day there's one of them will say
[00:43.34]That she'll agree now Oh you'll see now
[00:46.81]Each night they would fight as to which of them was right
[00:49.98]About the colour of her eyes or hair
[00:53.27]But not one word from me was ever heard
[00:56.65]About the darling girl from Clare
[01:05.22]Sez Fagan 'tis the father I'll be plaising
[01:08.54]I'll tell him of the land I've tilled
[01:11.67]I'll tell him of the cattle that I'm grazing
[01:15.06]And the house I mean for to build
[01:18.38]And when he sees the arable and pasture
[01:21.76]And the fat stock grazing there
[01:25.08]And the hens and the chickens you may go to the dickens
[01:28.75]For the darling girl from Clare
[01:31.54]So every man has got the finest plan
[01:35.369995]You'd ever see now barring me now
[01:39.130005]Every day there's one of them will say
[01:42.240005]That she'll agree now you'll see now
[01:45.6]Thinks I whither now though I haven't ere a cow
[01:48.979996]Of brass I've got my share
[01:52.18]And so I know the way I ought to go
[01:55.82]About the darling girl from Clare
[02:04.14]Sez Sharkey she'll be coming to the shop now
[02:07.73]To buy some sort of thing
[02:11.0]And I'll ask her if she has a mind to stop here
[02:14.38]And should I buy her the ring
[02:17.74]And when she sees the curtains on the window
[02:21.06]And the tall clock on the stair
[02:24.56]Keeping time to the minute noone else will be in it
[02:28.06]For the darling girl from Clare
[02:31.13]So every man has got the finest plan
[02:34.9]You'd ever see now barring me now
[02:38.52]Every day there's one of them will say
[02:41.6]That she'll agree now you'll see now
[02:44.93]Thinks I ye may stop till you rot in your shop
[02:48.23]And never a hair she'll care
[02:51.61]With all yer gold you'll never hold a hold
[02:54.9]Upon the darling girl from Clare
[03:03.58]I never said a single word about her
[03:06.87]But I met that girl that day
[03:10.16]And I told her that I couldn't live without her
[03:13.74]And what had she for to say
[03:16.95999]She said me to go and ask her father
[03:20.32]I met him then and there
[03:23.69]And in less than an hour we were fighting for the dower
[03:26.8]Of the darling girl from Clare
[03:30.37]So every man had got the finest plan
[03:33.86]You'd ever see now barring me now
[03:37.62]Every day there's one of them will say
[03:40.66]That she'll agree now Oh you'll see now
[03:44.05]But late last night when the moon was bright
[03:47.4]I axed her if she would share
[03:50.75]All me joy and me sorra and begorrah on tomorra
[03:54.3]I'll be married to the girl from Clare