Luyện nghe bài hát Lough Foyle

Words RW, music Irish: Nancy's Whiskey 1978

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

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

Me and some broke out one evening
through the wire and down the lough beside
We spied some fishers in their boats
Casting out on the silvery tide
They soon pulled shoreward and we got to
To row us over the water agree
They us dry shod in the boat beside them
And way across the waves went we
to Greencastle in Southern Ireland
A street of set end to end
A couple of churches and boozers
Where we fell to with our Irish friends

The best porter, strong beer and whiskey
We had a bevy there as drunk as
and all skylarking and capers
Till old church clock it chimed for four
The fishers rowed us back over the
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 lads all defaulted
and straight away fatigues were led
To double at our every
With our rifles held obove our

Bur my luck was not all departed
I got infected in both the
Some kind of hole in the two of my ear
Till not a single order I could
I sadly and looked downhearted
While they could curse and and rage
and the way I would end a story
When I was 14 of age