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IRISH SONGS AND LYRICS 283 |
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THE DONOVANS
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F you would like to see the height of hospitality, The cream of kindly welcome, and the core of cordiality: Joys of all the olden time—you're wishing to recall
again ? Come down to Donovans, and there you'll meet them all again.
Cead milefdiltel they'll give you down at Donovans, As cheery as the springtime and Irish as the can-
nawaun2 The wish of my heart is, if ever I had any one — That every luck that lightens life may light upon the Donovans.
As soon as e'er you lift the latch, the little ones are
meeting you; Soon as you're beneath the thatch, oh ! kindly looks
are greeting you: Scarcely are you ready to be holding out the fist to
them, When down by the fireside you're sitting in the midst
of them. Ceade mile fdilte they'll give you down at Donovans, etc.
There sits the cailin deas8—oh ! where on earjth's the peer of her ?
1 C'ead mile failte, a hundred thousand welcomes. 5 Cannawaun, bog-cotton. 3 Cailin deas, pretty girl. |
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