| lyric | 1. My love came to Dublin one fine Sunday morning,
My love came to Dublin to honour me there.
He wore a green ribbon around his blue bonnet
And I wore a bangle of gold in my hair.
2. The leaves they were green on that fine Sunday morning
But now they are falling, winding about,
And Inever asked him to buy me a ring.
Fall down very lightly ye leaves on me now.
3. The good girls sleep in all their fine modesty
And the bad girls sleep in the height of their shame,
But Imust lie lone in the cold by the river
Until I see my true love come back withmy name.
4. I won't ask the clergy for prayers in the chapel
And I won't hear the minister saying the prayers
But I'll go out to the wood of the birch trees and branches
And I'll ask them to raise up their arms in the air.
5. I will make my love some shoes of the finest Spanish leather
I will make my love a coat of the finest you've ever seen
And he will walk like a lord through the City of Dublin
And I will walk beside him in a mantle of green. |