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 mind being elevated
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There was multitudes assembled with their tickets at the station
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Me eyes began to dazzle and I going 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 lemonade and raisins
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And gingerbread and spices to 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
Continúa después del anuncio
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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 they're tripping on the daisies
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And others crying "Cigars and lights" and bills for all the races
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With the colours of the jockeys and 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 green, the emblem of our nation
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When the bell was rung for starting, all the horses seemed impatient
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I thought they never stood on 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___


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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 matter what persuasion
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But fortune, hospitality, inducing 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____