The Mad Lady And Me Lyrics - Sinead Oconnor

A Cristy Moore song of which Sinead did the 

background vocals, on Moore's album "Voyage" 

Original written by Jimmy MacCarthy 

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among the walls and ruins 

of the horrid civic stone 

I walked without a lover 

for my older bones 

the sun was strong in going down 

It was a dreamlike day 

it was there we met the trinity 

and there I heard them saying 

and she said bye bye Mama 

Goodbye brother John 

Farethee well ye Shandon bells 

ring on, ring on 

she leaned and leaned much closer 

and she hugs them all goodbye 

her mother cried "don't go my love" 

we all must bye and bye 

a drunken tongue said "leave her off" 

she'll drive us all crazy 

she turned around and saw my face 

and both of us was she 

and she said bye bye Mama 

Goodbye brother John 

Farethee well ye Shandon bells 

ring on, ring on 

up and to the limestone wall 

and down the level steps 

she threw herself into the stream 

witha spash and no regrets 

side stroke swimming midstream 

throwing kisses to the crowd 

and everything was silent 

and the sky had not one cloud 

and she said bye bye Mama 

Goodbye brother John 

Farethee well ye Shandon bells 

ring on, ring on 

we were swimming out in the sunset, 

we were swimming out to sea, 

swimming down by the Opera House 

The Mad Lady and me.