Away she cut so light and airy.

“Won’t you follow me? Won’t you follow me?”

“Faith, I will!” says Lanty Leary.

Rose, herself, was taken bad,

The fayver worse each day was growin’;

“Lanty, dear,” says she, “’tis sad,

To th’ other world I’m surely goin’.

You can’t survive my loss, I know,

Nor long remain in Tipperary.

Won’t you follow me? Won’t you follow me?”