Lovely Leitrim

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Last  

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night I had a  

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pleasant 

 

dream,

 

I  

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woke up  

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with a  

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smile.

 

I  

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dreamt that I was  

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back 

 

again

 

In  

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dear old Eirn’s  

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Isle

 

I  

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thought I saw Lough  

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Allen’s 

 

banks

 

In the  

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valleys down be  

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low

 

It  

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was my lovely  

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Leitrim

 

Where the  

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Shannon 

 

 

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water’s 

 

 

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flow.

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I stood enchanted by the scene

Of grandeur and delight,

Then I strolled on to Kerry Town

Before the dark of night.

I passed Sheemore that fairy hill

Where flowers do finely grow

And I saw the grave of Finn McColl

Where the Shannon water’s flow.

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I next did visit Fenagh Town

With her ancient abbey walls,

Where the preaching of the holy monks

Once echoed through her halls.

I stood with reverence on the spot

Reluctant for to go

From the town of saints and sages

Where the Shannon water’s flow.

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My eyes are dimmed and wet with tears,

I must be dreaming still.

I thought I saw those heroes

Who died upon Selton Hill,

But the fog is lifting from the scene

And I am forced to go

And leave the land so fair and grand

Where the Shannon water’s flow.

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In all the lands that I have been

Through the east and through the west

In all the lands that I have seen

I love my own the best

And if ever I return again,

There’s one place I will go

It will be to lovely Leitrim

Where the Shannon water’s flow.