Green Grow The Rushes - Altan

There's naught but care on every hand

In every hour that passes O

What signifies the life of man

If it were not for the lassies O

Green grow the rushes O

Green grow the rushes O

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies O

The worldly race may riches chase

And riches still may fly them O

And though at last they catch them fast

Their hearts can ne'er enjoy them O

Green grow the rushes O

Green grow the rushes O

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies O

Give me a cannie hour at e'en

My arms around my dearie O

The wisest man the world e'er saw

He dearly loved the lassies O

Green grow the rushes O

Green grow the rushes O

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies O

Old nature swears the lovely dears

Her noblest work she classes O

Her apprentice hand she tried on man

Then she made the lassies O

Green grow the rushes O

Green grow the rushes O

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies O

Green grow the rushes

Green grow the rushes