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A lap alján hozzászólhatsz a(z) Galway Races bejegyzéshez..

Dalszöveg - Zeneszöveg

As I roved out through Galway town

    to seek for recreation,

on the seventeenth of August

    my mind being elevated,

there were multitudes assembled

    with their tickets at the station,

my eyes began to dazzle and

    I’m going to see races.

With me whack, fol the do,

    fol the did-de-ley, i-dle-ay.

It’s there you’ll see the gamblers,

    the thimbles and the garters,

and the sporting Wheel of Fortune

    with the four and twenty quarters.

There were others without scruple

    pelting wattles at poor Maggy

and her father well contented

    and he looking at his daughter.

With me whack, fol the do,

    fol the did-de-ley, i-dle-ay.

There were passengers from Limerick

    and passengers from Nenagh,

the boys from Connemara

    and the Clare unmarried maidens,

and the people from Cork city

    who were loyal, true and faithful,

that brought home Fenian prisoners

    from dying in foreign nations.

With me whack, fol the do,

    fol the did-de-ley, i-dle-ay.

It’s there you’ll see the fiddlers

    and pipers competing,

the nimble-footed dancers

    and they tripping on the daisies,

and others crying „Cigars and lights

    and bills of all the races

with the colours of the jockeys

    and the prize and horses’ ages”.

With me whack, fol the do,

    fol the did-de-ley, i-dle-ay.

It’s there you’d see the jockeys

    and they mounted so stately,

the pinks, the blues, the Irisher green,

    the emblem of our nation.

When the bell was rung for starting

    all the horses seemed impatient,

I thought they’d never stood on ground,

    their speed was so amazing.

With me whack, fol the do,

    fol the did-de-ley, i-dle-ay.

There was half half a million people

    there of all denominations,

the Chatolic, the Protestant,

    the Jew and Presbyterian.

There was yet no animosity,

    no matter what persuasion,

but sport and hospitality

    inducing fresh acquaintance.

With me whack, fol the do,

    fol the did-de-ley, i-dle-ay.