Ballyhoe - Daniel O'Donnell

You told me that you would come back some day to me at Ballyhoe

But never a word since you went away from me so long ago

The hours are long, the lonely days are drifting into years

Oh it’s getting late but I still wait with eyes growing dim with tears

Oh do you remember the hawthorn nuts we gathered every spring

Do you remember the reels we danced around the fairy ring

And do you remember a promise made beneath a chestnut tree

But best of all my artsome one do you remember me

I wander along by the lakeside now at sunset’s early glow

Just thinking of all the dreams I dreamed of you so long ago

The whispers come, the whispers go they echo over the sea

The foreign land and the foreign strands have stolen you from me

Oh do you remember the hawthorn nuts we gathered every spring

Do you remember the reels we danced around the fairy ring

And do you remember a promise made beneath a chestnut tree

But best of all my artsome one do you remember me

But best of all my artsome one do you remember me