Anna Liffey

Anna Liffey

'Twas down by Anna Liffey

My love and I did stray

Where in the good old slushy mud

The seagulls sport and play

We've got the whiff of ray and chips

And Mary softly sighed

Oh John won't you come,

For a wan and wan

Down by the Liffey side

Well up along by George's Street

The loving pair did view

And Mary swanked it like a queen

In a skirt of navy blue

Her hat was newly turned

And her blouse was newly dyed

So you couldn't bate her amber locks

Down by the Liffey side

And on her old melodeon

How sweetly could she play

She played goodbye and do not sigh

And down by Texas Way

And when she turned Sinn Feiner

I nearly burst with pride

For to hear her sing the 'Soldier's song'

Down by the Liffey side

On Sunday morning to Meath Street

Together we will go

And up to Father Murphy there

We both will make our vow

He'll join our hands in wedlock bands

And soon we'll be outside

For a whole afternoon on our honeymoon

Down by the Liffey side

And we'll have little children

And rear them neat and clean

To shout up the Republic

And to sing about Sinn Fein

They'll do what their old fellow did

Who England's power divide

We'll send them off to fight The Saxon Hun

Down by the Liffey side