Down By the Liffey Side - The Wolfe Tones

'Twas down by Anna Liffey

My love and I did stray

'Twere in the good old slushy mud

The seagulls sport and play

We got the whiff of fish and chips

And Mary softly sighed

«Ah, John come on

For a one and one»

Down by the Liffeyside

And on her old meloden

How sweetly she could play

Goodbye, aye, and don’t you sigh

And down by Texas way

Ah but when she turned Sinn Féiner

My heart near burst with pride

For to hear her play the Soldier’s Song

Down by the Liffeyside

And we’ll have little children

And rare them neat and clean

To shout up the Republic

And to sing about Sinn Féin

To emulate their fellas

Who England’s laws defied

And to turn their guns against the Saxon huns

Down by the Liffey side

And then two raggy oldies

Together we will go

The rapture there that filled our hearts

No poor waiter could know

We filled ourselves with double ones

And Mary sobbed and sighs

«Sure I’d live forever eatin' chips

Down by the Liffeyside»