luke kelly Muirsheen Durkin HQ Lyrics

Songwriters: Barney Mckenna, Ciaron Bourke, John Edmund Sheehan, Luke Kelly, Ronald Joseph Drew, Traditional
In the days I went a courtin', I was never tired resortin'
To an alehouse or a playhouse and many's the house beside
But I told me brother Seamus, I'd go off and be right famous
And I'd never would return again till I'd roam the world wide
Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin, I'm sick and tired of workin'
No more, I'll dig the prates and no longer, I'll be fooled
As sure as me name is Carney, I'll be off to Californy
Where instead of diggin' prates, I'll be diggin' lumps of gold
I've courted girls in Blarney, in Kanturk and in Killarney
In Passage and in Queenstown that is the Cobh of Cork
Goodbye to all this pleasure and I'll be off to take me leisure
And the next time that you hear from me will be a letter from New York
Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin, oh, I'm sick and tired of workin'
No more, I'll dig the prates and no longer, I'll be fooled
As sure as me name is Carney, I'll be off to Californy
Where instead of diggin' prates, I'll be diggin' lumps of gold
Goodbye to all the girls at home, I'm going far across the foam
To try and make me fortune in far America
There's gold and jewels in plenty for the poor and for the gentry
And when I return again I never more will say
Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin, sure I'm sick and tired of workin'
No more, I'll dig the prates and no longer, I'll be fooled
As sure as me name is Carney, I'll be off to Californy
Where instead of diggin' prates, I'll be diggin' lumps of gold

[@christophercarroll989]

This is one of my most favourite Dubliners songs. I know it’s only lighted-hearted it but it cheers me every day. It also reminds me what a fine voice was Luke Kelly.

[@jerrymaloney573]

If you'd grown up with Irish roots, you would have heard "pass the praties" at the dinner table. In the song "Galway Bay", Bing Crosby (more Irish roots) sang "and the women in the uplands diggin' praties speak a language that the strangers do not know". My folks came to Canada in the 1850s through Boston during the terrible potato famine.

[@markkearney2767]

I am sure me name is kearney and i am of to cali for the green

[@odonnchada9994]

☘🇮🇪🎼🎼🎼💚

[@corporal747]

Whats "prates" ?

[@ktcadd]

praties are potatoes

[@corporal747]

Ah! Cheers. Must be a Dublin thing? never heard in the wesssst

[@Bobby8270]

Spuds.

[@TheSwaney73]

@@corporal747 it's not a Dublin thing, all Dublin slang originated in England.

[@johnyeomans9335]

In his day he was thrown abuse and degraded by the irish because he practiced singing in england and was counted as a traitor, in my opinion it was cuz he still sounded better than any other irish singer of his time.

[@cossie9]

Me bollocks

[@MrRebeldog7]

Black irish white
Man😂