Tuning: Standard
Capo: 3rd
Intro:
Oh, then fare ye well, sweet Donegal, the Rosses and Gweedore.
I m crossing the main ocean, where the foaming billows roar,
it breaks my heart from you to part, where I spent many happy days.
Farewell to kind relations for I m bound for Amerikay.
(Daniel O Donnell Ladies and Gentlemen)
Ah, then Mary, you re my hearts delight, my pride and only care,
it was your cruel father would not let me stay there.
But absence makes the heart grow fond and when I m o er the main,
may the Lord protect my darling girl till I return again.
And I wished I was in sweet Dungloe and seated on the grass.
And by my side a bottle of wine and on my knee a lass.
I d call for liquor of the best and I d pay before I go
and I d roll my Mary in my arms in the town of sweet Dungloe.