Luyện nghe bài hát Lough Foyle

Words RW, music trad Irish: Nancy's 1978

At age 14 gave us training
To number off by threes and give
To clean and the Lee and Enfield
To answer smartly sir and shine the
Me and all the other bastards
Glengarry on at bugle call
I never I looked good in khaki
It hurt the pride as well as it the balls
I volunteered for the section
To work the was a skivers joy
and on manoeuvres I'd twist the
and put on the soldier boys

To Northern Ireland for training
Near to Lough Foyle not far from Derry
To get the of the regular army
and generally act the clown
To eat beans and gravy
To sleep on old blankets stiff with stains
and on the in the morning
To squat in rows like cows labor pains

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

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

Bur my good was not all departed
I got in both the ears
Some of hole in the two of my ear drums
Till not a single order I hear
I sadly 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