Misc Traditional – Dear Old Donegal (Guitar)

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It seems like only yesterday

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I sailed from out of Cork

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A wanderer from Erin's isle

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I landed in New York

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There wasn't a soul to greet me there

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A stranger on your shore

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But Irish luck was with me here

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And riches came galore

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And now that I'm going back again

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To dear old Erin's isle

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My friends will meet me on the pier

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And greet me with a smile

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Their faces, sure, I've almost forgot

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I've been so long away

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But me mother will introduce them all

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And this to me will say

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Shake hands with your Uncle Mike, me boy

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And here is your sister, Kate

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And there's the girl you used to swing

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Down by the garden gate

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Shake hands with all of the neighbors

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And kiss the colleens all

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You're as welcome as the flowers in May

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To dear old Donnegal

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They'll give a party when I go home

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They'll come from near and far

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They'll line the roads for miles and miles

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With Irish jauntin' cars

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The spirits'll flow and we'll be gay

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We'll fill your hearts with joy

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The piper'll play an Irish reel

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To greet the Yankee boy

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We'll dance and sing the whole night long

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Such fun as never seen

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The lads'll be decked in corduroy

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The colleens wearin' green

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There'll be thousands there that I never saw

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I've been so long away

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But me mother will introduce them all

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And this to me will say

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Shake hands with your Uncle Mike, me boy

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And here is your sister, Kate

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And there's the girl you used to swing

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Down by the garden gate

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Shake hands with all of the neighbors

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And kiss the colleens all

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You're as welcome as the flowers in May

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To dear old Donnegal

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Meet Branigan, Fannigan, Milligan, Gilligan

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Duffy, McCuffy, Malachy, Mahone

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Rafferty, Lafferty, Donnelly, Connelly

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Dooley, O'Hooley, Muldowney, Malone

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Fagan, O'Hagan, O'Hoolihan, Flynn

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Shanihan, Manihan, Fogarty, Hogarty

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Kelly, O'Kelly, McGuinness, McGuinn

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Shake hands with your Uncle Mike, me boy

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And here is your sister, Kate

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And there's the girl you used to swing

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Down by the garden gate

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Shake hands with all of the neighbors

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And kiss the colleens all

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You're as welcome as the flowers in May

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To dear old Donnegal