Luyện nghe bài hát Lough Foyle

Words RW, music Irish: Nancy's Whiskey 1978

At age 14 they gave us
To number off by and give salutes
To and fire the Lee and Enfield
To answer sir and shine the boots
Me and all the poor bastards
Glengarry bonnets on at call
I thought I looked good in khaki
It the pride as well as it scratched the balls
I volunteered for the signals
To work the radios was a joy
and on manoeuvres I'd twist the
and put confusion on the boys

To Ireland for summer training
to Lough Foyle not far from Derry town
To get the feel of the army
and act the bloody clown
To eat melodious beans and
To sleep on old grey stiff with stains
and on the carsy in the
To in rows like cows with labor pains

Me and some lads broke out one
Climbed through the wire and down the beside
We spied some fishers in their boats
nets out on the silvery tide
They soon pulled and we got to talking
To row us over the water agree
They hoist us dry shod in the boat them
And way across the watery went we
to Greencastle in Southern Ireland
A of cottages set end to end
A of churches and several boozers
we fell to drinking with our Irish friends

The best porter, strong beer and whiskey
We had a bevy there as as lords
and all and cutting capers
Till that old church it chimed for four
The fishers rowed us back over the
and went to upon the morning rise
But we were and devoid of caution
and we were halted climbing back through the
and me and the were all defaulted
and straight away fatigues were led
To double at our duty
our rifles held obove our heads

Bur my good was not all departed
I got in both the ears
Some kind of hole in the two of my ear
not a single order I could hear
I smiled and looked downhearted
While they curse and shout and rage
and that's the way I end a story
When I was 14 of age