Since the lad of my heart from me did go,
Go-thee-thu, mavourneen slaun!
* Two parts of Irish spinning wheel.
** Irish Jacobites who joined the French army when the
cause of James II. was lost.
*** My boy.
I wish the King would return to reign,
And bring my true love back again;
I wish, and wish, but I wish in vain,
Go-thee-thu, mavourneen slaun!