BARNEY DARLING LYRICS

​Recorded by Rita And Sarah Keane


How sadly I'm thinking tonight of my sirelan 
Thinking of dreams and of days long gone by
 Memories of childhood so bright and so airy 
Comes rushing back to me with many a sigh 

I'm thinking of one whom I left far behind me 
In a little thatched cabin far over the sea 
Whose voice ever haunts me every night, 
noon and morning

Barney Darling won't you come back to me
Come back again to the land of the Shamrock 
Your old Irish mother awaits there for you 
And when friends and companions will turn and desert you

There's a place Barney darling in the old home for you
When I left the old home twenty years last December
I kissed them and bade them goodbye at the gate 
When somebody whispered her eyes filled with tears

A kind and a gentle voice told me to wait 
Her blessing she gave me with a kiss full of sorrow
The tears down her cheeks, sure I plainly could see
Her voice ever haunts me every night, noon and morning

Barney my darling won't you come back to me
Come back again to the land of the Shamrock 
Your old Irish mother awaits there for you 
And when friends and companions will turn and desert you
There's a place Barney darling in the old home for you