The Orchard

Lyrics

[Verse 1] When I was nine, in harvest time, I crossed the orchard wall The moon was bright, and the apples ripe, upon the ground did fall We filled our sacks, and we made our way back More adventures still to find In an orchard 'neath the Comeraghs in the sweet Dungarvan times [Verse 2] I crossed the orchard wall again when I was just thirteen It was, I think, to be my first drink of cider and poitin I remember well, it tasted like hell And I hoped the pain would end soon In an orchard 'neath the Comeraghs in the sweet Dungarvan moon [Verse 3] And whеn I was twenty-one years old, I marriеd Annie there The apple blossoms on the trees were better in her hair And when the day was over, we danced away night thru' the trees In an orchard 'neath the Comeraghs in the sweet Dungarvan breeze [Verse 6] I'm eighty-one, four children grown, and my Annie's long since gone My days were good as well they should But it's time that I passed on And when I die, I want to lie beneath the whispering trees In an orchard 'neath the Comeraghs and the sweet Dungarvan seas [Refrain] And when I'm gone, may I be one with the air And the land and the foam In an orchard 'neath the Comeraghs in my sweet Dungarvan home