Home to Bantry Bay

Lyrics

Once I was a sailor bold Who plowed the Raging Main I sailed from Cork to Liverpool To 'Frisco and to Spain But then I tired of wandering Upon the angry sea And I recalled me mother's words She always said to me [?] "Come home to Bantry Bay," She cried, a hundred times or more "Come home before you lose your way Upon some foreign shore." So, to her, I did listen And I bid the sea adieu And I thought no more of sailing ships Likewise the ocean blue And I nevermore will leave the shore I nevermore will stray I'll stay at home, no more to roam Away from Bantry Bay And then I was a rover bold All on the Emerald Isle Singing for me supper And still searching all the while And piece of mind I never found While I was rambling free So I headed home back to the farm Me father left to me And I nevermore will leave the shore I nevermore will stray I'll stay at home, no more to roam Away from Bantry Bay Oh the Bantry girls, how they beguile With grace and beauty rare No matter where I've wandered, boys There's none that can compare Was there I met a Colleen fair Upon the market day And ever since I spied her, sure She stole me heart away And I nevermore will leave the shore I nevermore will stray I'll stay at home, no more to roam Away from Bantry Bay {Music} Now I am a [?] bold Content as I can be With a warm and cozy cottage And a wife and children three At night around the fireside I tell my stories through Of sailormen and [?] [?] That Daddy used to do And I nevermore will leave the shore I nevermore will stray I'll stay at home, no more to roam Away from Bantry Bay And I nevermore will leave the shore I nevermore will stray I'll stay at home, no more to roam Away from Bantry Bay