Just our two selves there together “answerin’ up” and “givin’ out.”
We have said it by the cradle, we have said it by the cot;
When the babes the angels brought us made us happy in our lot,
When the house was full of childer, and the pride of livin’ glowed,
Och, we said it till the neighbours heard us, passin’ on the road.
But ye’ve gone and left me lonely; one by one, my doves, ye flew;
One by one the circle’s dwindled, till the Rosary’s said by two—
Said by two old husky voices, old and weak and wearin’ out,
Just our two old selves together, answerin’ t’other turn about.
Sure it won’t be long, alannah, till the troubled sea is calm,