The Maid of Culmore - Cara Dillon

Leaving sweet lovely Derry for fair London town

There is no finer harbour all around can be found

Where the children each evening go down to the shore

And the joy bells are ringing for the maid of Culmore

The first time I met her she passed me by

And the next time that I met her she bid me goodbye

But the last time I met her it broke my heart sore

For she sailed out of Ireland and away from Culmore

If I had the power the storms for to rise

I would blow the wind high and I’d darken the skies

I would blow the wind higher and salt seas to roar

For the day that my darling sailed away from Culmore

To the far shore of Americay my love I 'll go seek

For it’s there I know no-one and no-one knows me

And if don’t find her I’ll return home no more

Like a pilgrim I’ll wander for the maid of Culmore