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In the merry month of May / From me home I started

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Left the girls of Tuam / Nearly broken hearted

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Saluted father Dear / Kissed me darling mother

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Drank a pint of beer / Me grief and tears to smother

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Then off to reap the corn / Leave where I was born

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Cut a stout blackthorn / To banish ghosts and goblins 

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A brand new pair of brogues / Rattlin o’er the bogs

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Frightenin’ all the dogs / On the rocky road to dublin

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One two three four five.

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Hunt the Hare and / Turn her down the rocky road

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And all the way to dublin / Whack fol lol le rah