The Galway Races

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As I rode down 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 were multitudes assembled 
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with their tickets at the station
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Me eyes began to dazzle and I'm 
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goin' to see the races

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whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye

[Verse 2]
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There were passengers from Limerick 
and passengers from Nenagh
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And passengers from Dublin and 
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sportsmen from Tipperary
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There were passengers from Kerry, 
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and all quarters of our nation
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And our member, Peter Brennan, for 
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to join the Galway Blazers

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[Verse 3]
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There were multitudes from Aran, and
 members from New Quay Shore
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Boys from Connemara and the Claire
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 unmarried maidens
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There were people from Cork city 
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who were loyal, true and faithful;
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Who brought home the Fenian 
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prisoners from diverse foreign 
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nations

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whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye

[Verse 4]
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It's there you'll see confectioners 
with sugarsticks and dainties
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The lozenges and oranges, the 
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lemonade and raisins!
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The gingerbread and spices to 
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accomodate the ladies
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And a big crubeen for thruppence to
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 be pickin' while you're able

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[Verse 4]
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It's there you'll see the gamblers, 
the thimbles and the garters
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And the spotting Wheel of Fortune 
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with the four and twenty quarters
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There was others without scruple 
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pelting wattles at poor Maggy
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And her father well-contented and 
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he lookin' at his daughter

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whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye

[Verse 5]
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It's there you'll see the pipers and
 the fiddlers competing
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The nimble footed dancers 
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a-tripping over the daisies
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There were others crying cigars 
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and lights and bills for all the 
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races
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With the colors of the jockeys and 
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the prize and horses' ages

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[Verse 6]
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It's there you'll see the jockeys 
and they're mounted out so stately
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The pink, the blue, the orange, and
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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
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I thought they never stood on 
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ground their speed was so amazing

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[Verse 7]
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There was half a million people 
there from all denominations
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The Catholic, the Protestant, the 
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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 "failte" hospitality inducin' 
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fresh acquaintance

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