The Fields Of Athenry

By a lonely prison wall

I heard a young girl callin':

"Michael, they have taken you away

For you stole Trevelyn's corn

So the young might see the morn

As a prison ship lies waiting in the bay"

(Chorus)

Low lie the fields of Athenry

Where once we watched the small free birds fly

Our love was on the wing

We had dreams and songs to sing

It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry

By a lonely prison wall

I heard a young man calling:

"Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free

Against the famine and the Crown

I rebelled, they cut me down

Now you must raise our child with dignity"

(Chorus)

By a lonely harbor wall

She watched the last star fallin'

As the prison ship sailed out against the sky

For she lives to hope and pray

For her love in Botany Bay

It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry

(Chorus X2)

It's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry