In the days I went a courting, I was seldom done resorting
In the alehouse and the playhouse, and many's the house between
I told me brother Seamus I'd go off and get right famous
And when I'd come back home again I'd have seen the whole wide world
And it's goodbye Muirsheen Durkin, I'm sick and tired of working,
I'll no more dig the praties, I'll no more be fool.
For as sure as me name is Carney
I'm bound for California
Instead of digging praties I'll be digging lumps of gold.
Farewell to all the girls at home, I'm bound away across the foam
I'm off to seek me fortune in far America,
There's silver and gold aplenty for the poor and for the gentry
And when I come back again I never more will stray
In the alehouse and the playhouse, and many's the house between
I told me brother Seamus I'd go off and get right famous
And when I'd come back home again I'd have seen the whole wide world
And it's goodbye Muirsheen Durkin, I'm sick and tired of working,
I'll no more dig the praties, I'll no more be fool.
For as sure as me name is Carney
I'm bound for California
Instead of digging praties I'll be digging lumps of gold.
Farewell to all the girls at home, I'm bound away across the foam
I'm off to seek me fortune in far America,
There's silver and gold aplenty for the poor and for the gentry
And when I come back again I never more will stray