Dear Old Donegal Lyrics - Top O The Morning: Irish Collection - Bing Crosby

It seems like only yesterday 

I sailed from out of Cork 

A wanderer from Erin's isle 

I landed in New York 

There wasn't a soul to greet me there 

A stranger on your shore 

But Irish luck was with me here 

And riches came galore 

And now that I'm going back again 

To dear old Erin's isle 

My friends will meet me on the pier 

And greet me with a smile 

Their faces, sure, I've almost forgot 

I've been so long away 

But me mother will introduce them all 

And this to me will say 

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Shake hands with your Uncle Mike, me boy 

And here is your sister, Kate 

And there's the girl you used to swing 

Down by the garden gate 

Shake hands with all of the neighbours 

And kiss the colleens all 

You're as welcome as the flowers in May 

To dear old Donnegal 

They'll give a party when I go home 

They'll come from near and far 

They'll line the roads for miles and miles 

With Irish jauntin' cars 

The spirits'll flow and we'll be gay 

We'll fill your hearts with joy 

The piper'll play an Irish reel 

To greet the Yankee boy 

We'll dance and sing the whole night long 

Such fun as never seen 

The lads'll be decked in corduroy 

The colleens wearin' green 

There'll be thousands there that I never saw 

I've been so long away 

But me mother will introduce them all 

And this to me will say 

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Shake hands with your Uncle Mike, me boy 

And here is your sister, Kate 

And there's the girl you used to swing 

Down by the garden gate 

Shake hands with all of the neighbours 

And kiss the colleens all 

You're as welcome as the flowers in May 

To dear old Donnegal 

Meet Branigan, Fannigan, Milligan, Gilligan 

Duffy, McCuffy, Malachy, Mahone 

Rafferty, Lafferty, Donnelly, Connelly 

Dooley, O'Hooley, Muldowney, Malone 

Madigan, Cadigan, Lanihan, Flanihan 

Fagan, O'Hagan, O'Hoolihan, Flynn 

Shanihan, Manihan, Fogarty, Hogarty 

Kelly, O'Kelly, McGuinness, McGuinn 

Shake hands with your Uncle Mike, me boy 

And here is your sister, Kate 

And there's the girl you used to swing 

Down by the garden gate 

Shake hands with all of the neighbours 

And kiss the colleens all 

You're as welcome as the flowers in May 

To dear old Donnegal