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The Girl I left Behind Me Lyrics by Derek Warfield

Washington’s Irish

2011

[Chorus]
All the dames of France are fond and free
And Flemish lips are willing
And soft the maids of Italy
And Spanish eyes are thrilling
Still, 'though I bask beneath their smile
Their charms will fail to bind me;
And my heart falls back to Erin's isle
To the girl I left behind me
[Verse 1]
For she's as fair as Sionainn's side
And purer than it's water;
And she refused to be my bride
Though many a year I sought her
And then, to France, I sailed away
But her letters oft' remind me:
That I promised nеver to gainsay
The girl I left bеhind me
[Verse 2]
She says: “My own dear love come home
My friends are rich and many
Or else, abroad, with you I’ll roam-
A soldier, stout, as any
If you’ll not come, nor let me go
I’ll think you'll have resigned me.”
My heart 'n I broke when I answered “No”
To the girl I left behind me
[Verse 3]
For never shall my true love brave
A life of war and toiling
I'll never, as a skulking slave
My native land, be soiling
But were it "free or to be freed"
The battle, close, would find me
To Ireland bound would a message leave
To the girl I left behind me
[Chorus]
All the dames of France are fair and free
And Flemish lips are willing
And soft the maids of Italy
And Spanish eyes are thrilling
And though I bask beneath their smile
Their charms will fail to bind me
My heart flies back to Erin's isle
To the girl I left behind me
Credits
Derek Warfield

Derek Warfield

About “The Girl I left Behind Me” by Derek Warfield

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