| lyric | 1. 'Twas down Anna Liffey my love and I did stay,
where in the good old slushy mud the seagulls sport and play.
We got the whiff of ray and chips and Mary softly sighed:
Oh John come on for a wan and wan down by the Liffey side.
2. Then down along by George’s Street the loving pairs to View,
While Mary swanked it like a queen in a skirt of royal blue,
Her hat was lately turned and her blouse was newly dyed,
Oh, you could not match her round the block, down by the Liffeyside.
3. And on her old melodion how sweetly could she play,
“Good-by-ee” and “Don’t sigh-ee” and “Rule Brittanni-ay”,
But when she turnded Sinn Feiner me heart near burst with pride,
To hear her sing the Soldier’s Song down by the Liffeyside.
4. On Sunday morning to Meath Street together we will go,
And it’s up to Father Murphy we both will make our vow,
He’ll join our hands in wedlock bands and we’ll be soon outside,
For awhole afternoon, for our honeymoon, down by the Liffeyside. |