Luyện nghe bài hát Lough Foyle

Words RW, music trad Nancy's Whiskey 1978

At age 14 gave us training
To number off by threes and salutes
To clean and fire the Lee and
To answer smartly sir and shine the
Me and all the other poor
Glengarry bonnets on at call
I never thought I looked in khaki
It hurt the pride as well as it scratched the
I volunteered for the section
To work the radios was a joy
and on I'd twist the orders
and put confusion on the soldier

To Northern for summer training
Near to Lough not far from Derry town
To get the feel of the army
and generally act the bloody
To eat melodious beans and
To sleep on old blankets stiff with stains
and on the in the morning
To squat in rows cows with labor pains

Me and some broke out one evening
Climbed the wire and down the lough beside
We spied fishers in their long boats
Casting out on the silvery tide
soon pulled shoreward and we got to talking
To row us over the they'd agree
They hoist us dry shod in the boat them
And way across the watery went we
Cross to in Southern Ireland
A street of set end to end
A couple of churches and several
Where we fell to with our Irish friends

The best porter, strong beer and whiskey
We had a there as drunk as lords
and all skylarking and cutting
Till that old church clock it chimed for
The fishers rowed us back the water
and went to fish upon the morning
But we were and devoid of caution
and we were halted back through the wire
and me and the lads were all
and straight upon fatigues were led
To at our every duty
With our rifles held our heads

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