Luyện nghe bài hát Lough Foyle

Words RW, trad Irish: Nancy's Whiskey 1978

At age 14 they gave us
To off by threes and give salutes
To clean and the Lee and Enfield
To answer smartly sir and the boots
Me and all the other bastards
bonnets on at bugle call
I never thought I good 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 manoeuvres I'd twist the
and put confusion on the boys

To Northern Ireland for summer
Near to Lough not far from Derry town
To get the feel of the regular
and act the bloody clown
To eat melodious beans and
To sleep on old grey blankets stiff stains
and on the in the morning
To squat in rows like cows with labor

Me and lads 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
They soon pulled shoreward and we got to
To row us over the water agree
hoist us dry shod in the boat beside them
And way across the waves went we
to Greencastle in Southern Ireland
A of cottages set end to end
A couple of churches and boozers
we fell to drinking with our Irish friends

The best black porter, strong beer and
We had a there as drunk as lords
and all and cutting capers
Till old church clock it chimed for four
The fishers us back over the water
and went to fish upon the rise
But we were and devoid of caution
and we were halted back through the wire
and me and the were all defaulted
and straight upon fatigues were led
To double at our duty
With our rifles held our heads

Bur my luck 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 could curse and shout and rage
and that's the way I end a story
I was 14 years of age