I Made A Bold Decision And I Followed It With Certainty
That I Would Leave This Place For The New Land
I Set Off With The High King Above My Shoulders
To Walk This Lonely Earth
I Walked For One Hundred Thousand Miles And Did Not See
A Sheep Cow Or Donkey Grazing In The Fields
I Only Saw Big Towns With Men Women And Children In Tatters
With Hunger And Fear In Their Lives
I Came Across A House With Some Decent Folk In
It
They Asked Me My Name And Where I Was From
I Told Them In English I Was Born In Ireland
On The Coast Of Loch Erne Beside Ballyrath
There Was An Old Woman In The Corner Knitting Socks
She Joyfully Rose To Her Feet And Said
"Bless My Soul My Fellow Countryman You Are Truly
One Of Us
I Was Raised In Ireland Near Ballyrath"
I Made A Bold Decision And I Followed It With Certainty
That I Would Go Back To Ireland The Place Where I Will Be Buried
Where There Are Good Gentle Folk And Nice Young
Girls
For Me To Spend All The Night With