Lyrics

[Verse 1] A hungry feeling came o'er me stealing And the mice were squealing in my prison cell And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle All along the banks of the Royal Canal [Verse 2] Oh, to start the morning, the warder bawling "Get up out of bed, you, and clean out your cell" And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle All along the banks of the Royal Canal [Verse 3] Oh, the screw was peeping and the lag was sleeping As he lay weeping for his girl Sal And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle All along the banks of the Royal Canal [Verse 4] On a fine spring evening, the lag lay dreaming And the seagulls were wheeling high above the wall And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle All along the banks of the Royal Canal [Verse 5] Oh, the wind was sighing and the day was dying As the lag lay crying in his prison cell And that auld triangle went jingle-bloody-jangle All along the banks of the Royal Canal [Verse 6] In the women's prison, there are seventy women And I wish it was with them that I did dwell Then that auld triangle could go jingle-jangle All along the banks of the Royal Canal