A Broken Song

‘WHERE am I from?’ From the green hills of Erin.

‘Have I no song then?’ My songs are all sung.

‘What o’ my love?’ ’Tis alone I am farin’.

Old grows my heart, an’ my voice yet is young.

‘If she was tall?’ Like a king’s own daughter.

‘If she was fair?’ Like a mornin’ o’ May.

When she’d come laughin’ ’twas the runnin’ wather,

When she’d come blushin’ ’twas the break o’ day.

‘Where did she dwell?’ Where one’st I had my dwellin’.

‘Who loved her best?’ There’s no one now will know.

‘Where is she gone?’ Och, why would I be tellin’!

Where she is gone there I can never go.