Luyện nghe bài hát Lough Foyle

Words RW, trad Irish: Nancy's Whiskey 1978

At age 14 gave us training
To number off by threes and salutes
To clean and the Lee and Enfield
To answer smartly sir and the boots
Me and all the other bastards
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 signals
To work the radios was a joy
and on manoeuvres I'd twist the
and put on the soldier boys

To Northern Ireland for summer
to Lough Foyle not far from Derry town
To get the feel of the regular
and generally act the bloody
To eat melodious and gravy
To sleep on old grey stiff with stains
and on the in the morning
To squat in rows like with labor pains

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

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

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