Chords with lyrics
Verse 1:
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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 mind being elevated
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There were multitudes assembled with their tickets at the station
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Me eyes began to dazzle and I'm goin' to see the races
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With your 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 sportsmen from Tipperary
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There were passengers from Kerry, and all quarters of our nation
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And our member, Peter Brennan, for to join the Galway Blazers
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With your whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye
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 unmarried maidens
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There were people from Cork city who were loyal, true and faithful;
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Who brought home the Fenian prisoners from diverse foreign nations
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With your 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 lemonade and raisins!
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The gingerbread and spices to accomodate the ladies
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And a big crubeen for thruppence to be pickin' while you're able
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With your whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye
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 with the four and twenty quarters
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There was others without scruple pelting wattles at poor Maggy
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And her father well-contented and he lookin' at his daughter
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With your 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 a-tripping over the daisies
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There were others crying cigars and lights and bills for all the races
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With the colors of the jockeys and the prize and horses' ages
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With your whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye
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 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
Chorus:
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With your whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye
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 Jew, and Presbyterian
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There was yet no animosity, no matter what persuasion
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But "failte" hospitality inducin' fresh acquaintance
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With your whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye
Chorus:
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With your whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye