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The Reason I left Mullingar

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I walk through this city a stranger, in a land I can never call home,

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I cast a sad notion across me, in search of my fortune to roam.

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I’m weary of working and drinking, on a week’s wages left in the bar,

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And God it’s a shame for to use a friend’s name, just to beg for the price of a jar.

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• I remember that bright April morning, when I left home to travel afar,

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• But to work till you’re dead for one room and a bed, it’s not the reason I left Mullingar.

Ah this London’s a city of heartbreak, on a Friday there’s friends by the score,

Ah but when the pay’s finished on Monday, a friend’s not a friend any more.

For a working day seems never-ending, from a shovel and pick there’s no break,

And when you’re not working you’re spending, the fortune you left home to make.

Chorus

And for every man here that finds fortune, and comes home to tell of the tale,

Each morning the Broadway is crowded with many the thousands who failed.

So young men of Ireland take warning, in London you never will find,

The gold at the end of the rainbow, for you might just have left it behind.

Chorus

But to work till you’re dead for one room and a bed, it’s not the reason I left Mullingar.

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