Hobble Chains

I'll be home soon enough he said
And kissed my cheek too lightly
Then he sprang into the saddle
And set my heart to beating wildly

My love was but a lad back then
And when his Irish blood was up
I daren't hold him from the world outside
A slab and shingled hut

CHORUS 1
So the sad refrain of hoof beats echoed over the plains
And the eerie fading chime of hobble chains
Oh I felt a fool to let him go now my heart mourns the days
'Til I hear those hoof beats echo home and the chime of hobble chains

Now in the dimming hours
When I lay down alone
I long to see his shadow
In the hearths dying glow

And I strain to hear him riding
Through the moonlit iron bark
My weary heart is haunted
For too long we've been apart

CHORUS 2
And the sad refrain of hoof beats echo over the plains
And the eerie fading chime of hobble chains
Oh I felt a fool to let him go now my heart mourns the days
'Til I hear those hoof beats echo home and the chime of hobble chains

Oh I felt a fool to let him go now my heart mourns the days
'Til I hear those hoof beats echo home the chime of hobble chains