One starry night as I lay sleepin' One starry night as I lay in bed Dreamed I heard wagon wheels a'creakin' When I awoke, love, found you had fled I'
wear her scally, oh, so stylish Told her old man she's discoverin' her roots She know the songs and the bands that sing 'em The Murphs, the Mollies, 47
lays plots in London But she won't have my head The candle gutters The smell sweeps me back To the icy fields of Kinsale The bodies burning black Fire
Oh, the lights shone down on Broadway They lit up old Times Square When we waltzed like Fred and Ginger All along the great White Way But you never said
Izzy was a tailor down the lower east side The very man to top you off with dignity and pride His mother wanted him to marry a Katz from Houston Street
If it's all so far behind me why does it seem like yesterday The lark in the morning, your auld lad tossin' hay The ferry in the harbor dancing jigs upon
Oh, I see you lookin' from the corner of your eye As I put on me make-up, hoist me skirt up high I won't be comin' home tonight, just so as you know Lock
I don't know why it all fell apart I was too young, you were too smart I guess you knew It was goin' nowhere right from the start But your memory brings
adore To go down to the vault of your bank And do it on the floor No bother, a stor That's easily arranged So we stole into the bank And down the creaky
You'll long for me in Australia I should have known what would become of me The future's always been there for all the world to see The black death