Digital Tradition Mirror

Garryowen

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Garryowen

Let Bacchus' sons be not dismayed
But join with me, each jovial blade
Come, drink and sing and lend your aid
To help me with the chorus:

cho: Instead of spa, we'll drink brown ale
     And pay the reckoning on the nail;
     No man for debt shall go to jail
     From Garryowen in glory.

We'll beat the bailiffs out of fun,
We'll make the mayor and sheriffs run
We are the boys no man dares dun
If he regards a whole skin.

Our hearts so stout have got no fame
For soon 'tis known from whence we came
Where'er we go they fear the name
Of Garryowen in glory.

Note: Official marching tune of Custer's Seventh Cavalry.
     Garryowen, or Owen's Garden, is a suburb of Limerick.

RG

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