The Dubliners – Cavan Girl (Guitar)

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As I walk the road from Killashandra, weary I sit down.

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For it's twelve long miles around the lake to get to Cavan town.

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Though Oughter and the road I go once seemed beyond compare.

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Now I curse the time it takes to reach my Cavan girl so fair.

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The autumn shades are on the leaves, the trees will soon be bare,

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Each red-gold leaf around me seems the colour of her hair.

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My gaze retreats to find my feet and once again I sigh,

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For the broken pools of sky remind the colour of her eye.

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At the Cavan Cross each Sunday morning there she can be found,

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And she seems to have the eye of every boy in Cavan town.

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If my luck will hold I'll have the golden summer of her smile,

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And to break the hearts of Cavan men, she'll talk to me a while.

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So next Sunday evening finds me homeward - Killashandra bound,

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To work the week, till I return and court in Cavan town.

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When asked if she would be my bride at least she'd not said "no",

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So next Sunday morning, rouse myself, and back to her I'll go.