Ar Eirinn Ni Neosfainn - Dervish

There’s a home by the wide Avonmore

That will sweep o’er the broad open sea

And wide rivers their waves wash ashore

Whilst bulrushes wave to the breeze

Where the green ivy clings 'round the door

And the birds sweetly sing on each tree

Oh me darling, they’re tuning their notes

It’s ar Éirinn ní neosfainn cé hí

Like the sick man that longs for the dawn

I do long for the light of her smile

And I pray for my own cailín bán

Whilst I’m waiting for her by the stile

Oh I’d climb all the hills of the land

And I’d swim all the depths of the sea

To get one kiss from her lily-white hand

It’s ar Éirinn ní neosfainn cé hí

I have toiled sore those years of me life

Through storm, through sunshine and rain

And I surely would venture my life

For to shield her one moment from pain

For she being my comfort in life

Oh my comfort and joy she may be

She’s my own, she’s my promised wife

It’s ar Éirinn ní neosfainn cé hí

Oh but when I will call her my own

And 'tis married we both then will be

Like the king and the queen on the throne

We’d be living in sweet purity

Oh 'tis then I’ll have a home of my own

And I’ll rear up a nice family

Oh 'tis then that her name will be known

But for Ireland I won’t tell her name