Lyrics

Verse:
I first met you in the highland; pretty girl so strangely fey
As to catch my eye and keep it, and to steal my breath away

I was young, but you were younger and I followed 'er you ran
Just to touch your freckled cheek, lass, or to hold your lily hand

Refrain:
It was far from me to wonder how you left me half-beguiled
Why you strove so hard to make me love the mother of my child

Verse:
Though I've built a life I'm proud of as her husband and his dad
From a distance I have watched you, often feeling somewhat sad

Verse:
Ah, good lady, guardian ... true of soul my own
You mapped the road I had to travel though it left you quite alone

Refrain:
Now you watch me too, I venture, feeling somewhat sad, I trust
Yet glad that we were right enough to do what well we must.

Verse:
I was young, but you were younger and I followed 'er you ran
Just to touch your freckled cheek, lass, or to hold your lily hand

Now you're old, and I am older and our future's close at hand
Soon we'll be at last together in our dreams of Ireland
Our dreams of Ireland ... in dreams of Ireland.