Cavan girl (intro) (midi) (sample) (sample - Barnbrack)

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1. As I walk the road from Kilashandra, weary I sit down,

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for it's twelve long miles around the lake to get to Cavan town.

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'Though Oughter and the road I go, once seemed beyond compare,

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now I curse the time it takes to reach my Cavan girl so fair. 

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2. The autumn shades are on the leaves, the trees will soon be bare, 

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each red coat leaf around me seems the colour of her hair.

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My gaze retreats, defies my feet and once again I sigh,

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for the broken pool of sky reminds me the colour of her eyes. 

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3. At the Cavan cross each Sunday morning it’s there she can be found, 

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and she seems to have the eye of every boy in Cavan town.

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If my luck will hold I'll share the golden summer of her smile, 

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and to break the hearts of Cavan men, she'll talk to me a while.

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4. So next Sunday evening finds me homeward Kilashandra bound, 

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to work a week till I return to court in Cavan town.

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When asked if she would be my bride, at least she'd not said no, 

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so next Sunday morning rouse myself and back to her I go.

+ C - G - Am - G - F - G - C (midi = capo 2nd) (The Dubliners)