Cavan Girl - The High Kings

As I walk the road from Killeshandra

Weary I sat down

For it's twelve long miles around the lake

To get to Cavan town

Though oughter and the road

I go once seemed beyond compare

Now I curse the time it takes to reach my Cavan girl

So fair

The Autumn shades are on the leaves

The trees will soon be bare

Each red coat leaf around me seems

The colour of her hair

My gaze retreats defies my feet

And once again I sigh

As the broken pool of sky reminds

The colour of her eyes

At the Cavan cross each Sunday morning

Where she can be found

And she seems to have the eye of every boy

In Cavan town

If my luck will hold

I'll have the golden summer of her smile

And to break the hearts of Cavan men

She'll talk to me a while

So next Sunday evening finds me homeward

Killeshandra bound

To work the week 'til I return to court in Cavan town

When asked if she would be my bride

At least she'd not say no

So next Sunday morning I'll rouse myself and back to her

I'll go

As I walk the road from Killeshandra weary

I sat down

For it's twelve long miles around the lake ahh

To get to Cavan town

Though oughter and the road I go oho

Once seemed beyond compare

Now I curse the time it takes to reach my Cavan girl

So fair

Now I curse the time it takes to reach my Cavan girl

So fair