Muirsheen Durkin

Muirsheen Durkin - Johnny McEvoy

In the days I went a courtin'

I was never tired resortin'

To an ale-house or a playhouse

And many's the house besides

But I told me brother Seamus

I'd go off and be right famous

And I never would return again 'til

I roamed the world wide

Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin

Sure I'm sick and tired of working

No more I'll dig the praties

And no longer I'll be fooled

As sure's me name is Carney

I'll be off to California

Where instead of diggin' praties

I'll be diggin' lumps of gold

I've courted girls in Blarney

In Kanturk and in Killarney

In Passage and in Queenstown

That is the Cobh of Cork

Goodbye to all this pleasure

I'll be off to take me leisure

And the next time that you hear from me

Will be a letter from New York

So it's Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin

I'm sick and tired of working

No more I'll dig the praties

And no longer I'll be fooled

As sure's me name is Carney

I'll be off to California

Where instead of diggin' praties

I'll be diggin' lumps of gold

Goodbye to the boys at

I'm going far across the foam

To try and make me fortune in far Amerikay

There's gold and money

And plenty for the poor and for the gentry

And when I come back again

I never more will say

Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin

Sure I'm sick and tired of working

No more I'll dig the praties

And no longer I'll be fooled

As sure's me name is Carney

I'll be off to California

Where instead of diggin' praties

I'll be diggin' lumps of gold