Galway Races

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As I rode out to Galway Town to seek
 for recreation
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On the seventeenth of August, me 
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mind being elevated
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There was multitudes assembled 
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with their tickets at the station
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Me eyes began to dazzle and I going
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 to see the races


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With a wack fol de dil
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Fol de diddly idle lay___


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It's there you'll see confectioners 
and sugar-sticks and dainties
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And lozenges and oranges and 
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lemonade and raisins
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And gingerbread and spices to 
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accommodate the ladies
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And a big crúibin for thruppence to 
be pickin' while you're able


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With a wack fol de dil
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Fol de diddly idle lay___


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And there you'll see the pipers and 
the fiddlers competing
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And nimble footed dancers and 
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they're tripping on the daisies
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And others crying "Cigars and 
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lights" and bills for all the races
With the colours of the jockeys and 
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the price and horses ages


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With me wack fol de dil
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Fol de diddly idle lay___


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It's there you'll see the jockeys 
and they mounted on so stably
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The blue, the pink, the red, the 
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green, the emblem of our nation
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When the bell was rung for 
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starting, all the horses seemed 
impatient
I thought they never stood on 
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ground, their speed was so amazing


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With a wack fol de dil
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Fol de diddly idle lay___


[VERSE 4:]
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There was half a million people 
there of all denominations
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The Catholic, the Protestant, the 
Jew and Presbyterian
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There was yet no animosity, no 
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matter what persuasion
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But fortune, hospitality, inducing 
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fresh acquaintance


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With me wack fol de dil
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Fol de diddly idle lay___


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Ah, with me wack fol de dil
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Fol de diddly idle lay____