Goodbye Johnny dear - Irish Traditional - Orfeo A Cappella

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Goodbye Johnny Dear / Old Bog Road / Farewell to Galway Lyrics

Just twenty years ago today, I grasped my mother's hand,
She kissed and blessed her only son, on to a far off land;
She called me to her love and breast, she knew I had to go,
But still a mem'ry I could hear, my mother soft and low.

Goodbye, Johnny dear, and when you're far away,
Don't forget your dear old mother far across the sea;
Write a letter now and then and send her all you can,
And don't forget where e'er you roam, that you're an Irishman.

I sailed away from Queenstown, that is the cove of Cork,
A very pleasant voyage we had and soon we were in New York;
My good friends urge to meet me, I got a job next day,
But still a mem'ry I could hear,
my mother's sweet voice say.

Goodbye, Johnny dear, and when you're far away,
Don't forget your dear old mother far across the sea;
Write a letter now and then and send her all you can,
And don't forget where e'er you roam, that you're an Irishman.

One day a letter came to me, it came from Ireland,
The postmark showed it came from home,
t'was not my mother's hand;
'Twas father home who wrote it, he said she passed away,
But still a mem'ry I could hear, my mother's sweet voice say.
Goodbye, Johnny dear, and when you're far away,
Don't forget your dear old mother far across the sea;
Write a letter now and then and send her all you can,
And don't forget where e'er you roam, that you're an Irishman.

It's Farewell to the town of Galway
Connemara and Oranmore
Goodbye Barna, Rosmuck and Carna
I am bound for a foreign shore