The Bantry Girls Lament Lyrics - Singles - Clancy Brothers

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Who will plow the field now, and who will sow the corn 

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Who will wash the sheep now, and keep them neatly shorn 

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The stack that's in the haggard, un-touched it may re-main 

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Since Johnny went a-thrashing all in the wars of Spain 

CHORUS: 

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Johnny, lovely Johnny, he's sailing o'er the main 

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A-long with other patriots, to fight the King of Spain 

And the girls from the bawn-oag in sorrow may re-tire 

The piper and his bellows, (may) go home and blow the fire 

At fairs and hurling matches, your likes we seldom see 

Till you come home a-gain to us, a-storeen oag mo cree 

And a cruel fate will not permit our Johnny to re-turn 

His heavy loss, we Bantry girls will never cease to mourn 

We re-sign ourselves to our sad lot, and die in grief and pain 

Johnny died for freedom's sake in the foreign lands of Spain 

NOTES: 

- Gaelic phrases are spelled phonetically 

- Haggard: a threshing yard 

- Ba/no/g: a green patch of ground (Ireland?) 

- Mi/an fhomhair: harvest month 

- Asto/iri/n o/g mo chroi: little young treasure of my heart 

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