Luyện nghe bài hát Lough Foyle

Words RW, trad 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 smartly sir and the boots
Me and all the other bastards
Glengarry on at bugle call
I never thought I looked in khaki
It hurt the pride as well as it scratched the
I volunteered for the signals
To work the was a skivers joy
and on manoeuvres I'd twist the
and put confusion on the soldier

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

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

The black porter, strong beer and whiskey
We had a there as drunk as lords
and all skylarking and capers
Till that old church clock it for four
The rowed us back over the water
and to fish upon the morning rise
But we were drunk and devoid of
and we were halted climbing back through the
and me and the were all defaulted
and away upon fatigues were led
To double at our every
With our rifles held obove our

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