So fare you well, &c.
I enter’d with them for a season, my monthly pay for to draw,
And being in very good humor, I often sang Erin Go Bragh.
Our provision it was very plenty, to complain we’d no reason at all,
I had money in every pocket while working upon the canal.
So fare you well, &c.
I learnt to be very handy, to use both the shovel and spade,
I learnt the whole art of canalling—I think it an excellent trade.
I learned to be very handy, although I was not very tall,
I could handle the sprig of shillelah, with the best man on the canal.