Muirsheen Durkin - Johnny McEvoy [with Lyrics]

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Johnny McEvoy, Ireland's best-loved singer-songwriter, has been performing now for over four decades. This special anthology features many of his most popular ballads and chart-topping hits, which were recorded at the height of his outstanding career.

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Muirsheen Durkin - as sung by Johnny McEvoy

In the days I went a courtin' I was never tired resortin'
To an alehouse or a playhouse and many's the house beside
I told me brother Seamus I'd go off and go right famous
And before l'd come back again I'd roam the world wide

So goodbye Muirsheen Durkin
Sure l'm sick and tired of working
No more I'll dig the praties
no longer I'll be fool
Sure as me name is Carney
I'll be off to California
Where instead of diggin' praties
I'll be diggin' lumps of gold

I've courted girls in Blarney in Kanturk and in Killarney
In Passage and in Queenstown that is the Cobh of Cork
Goodbye to all this pleasure for I'm going to take me leisure
And the next that you will hear from me is a letter from New York

So goodbye Muirsheen Durkin
Sure l'm sick and tired of working
No more I'll dig the praties
no longer I'll be fool
Sure as me name is Carney
I'll be off to California
Where instead of diggin' praties
I'll be diggin' lumps of gold

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Goodbye to all the boys at home I'm sailing far across the foam
To try to make me fortune in far Amerikay
There's gold and money plenty for the poor and for the gentry
And when I come back again I never more will say

Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin
Sure I'm sick and tired of working
No more I'll dig the praties
no longer I'll be fool
Sure as me name is Carney
I'll be off to California
Where instead of diggin' praties
I'll be diggin' lumps of gold

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