Key: Eb major
Verse 1
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And on a ship from Old Deeren's Isle
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I landed in New York
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and a stranger on the shore
I worn on a styrish heart
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and fortune came galore
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to dear Old Deeren's Isle
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and they'll greet me with a smile
I'll surely forget,
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But me mother will intro
Shake hands with your Uncle Mike,
me boy,
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shake hands with your Sister Kate
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Shake hands with all the neighbours,
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and kiss the colleens all
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You're as welcome as the flowers are made
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to dear old Donny Gaw
They'll give a party when
I get back
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and they'll come from near and far
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with Irish jaunting cars
we'll all be gay
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and we'll fill their hearts with joy
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The pipe will play an Irish reel
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to greet the Yankee boy
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I'll go and wedded I will be
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To my pretty little Colleen Vaughan,
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For Biddy was true and faithful,
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to her Dinny are the sea,
Will join the harp and jammer
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to the stars of liberty.
There'll come Rannigan, Flannigan,
Milligan, Gilligan, Duffy, McCuffie, Malarky,
Mahone, Rafferty, Lafferty,
Donnelly, Connelly, Dooley, O'Dooley, Muldoney, Malone, Nattigan,
Cadigan, Lanahan, Flanahan, Fagan, O 'Hagan,
O 'Hoolahan, Flynn, Shanahan, Lanahan,
Hobarty, Fogarty, Kelly,
O 'Kelly, Shapiro, McGinn.
Then I'll shake the hand of me Uncle Mike,
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the hand of me Sister Kate,
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please the girl by the garden gate.
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to me wedding great and small,
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And I'll live content and pay no hand
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In dear old Un de gard
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