Dubliners Anna Liffey Lyrics

Anna Liffey Lyrics

Anna Liffey



'Twas down by Anna Liffey



My love and I did stray



Where in the good old slushy mud



The seagulls sport and play



We've got the whiff of ray and chips



And Mary softly sighed



Oh John won't you come,



For a wan and wan



Down by the Liffey side







Well up along by George's Street



The loving pair did view



And Mary swanked it like a queen



In a skirt of navy blue



Her hat was newly turned



And her blouse was newly dyed



So you couldn't bate her amber locks



Down by the Liffey side







And on her old melodeon



How sweetly could she play



She played goodbye and do not sigh



And down by Texas Way



And when she turned Sinn Feiner



I nearly burst with pride



For to hear her sing the 'Soldier's song'



Down by the Liffey side







On Sunday morning to Meath Street



Together we will go



And up to Father Murphy there



We both will make our vow



He'll join our hands in wedlock bands



And soon we'll be outside



For a whole afternoon on our honeymoon



Down by the Liffey side







And we'll have little children



And rear them neat and clean



To shout up the Republic



And to sing about Sinn Fein



They'll do what their old fellow did



Who England's power divide



We'll send them off to fight The Saxon Hun



Down by the Liffey side