One Starry Night

One starry night as I lay sleepin’

One starry night as I lay in bed

Dreamed I heard wagon wheels a’creakin’

When I awoke, love, found you had fled

I’ll search the highways, likewise the byways

I’ll search the boreens, the camping places too

I will inquire of all our people

Have they tide or tidings or sight of you

For it’s many’s the mile, love, with you I’ve traveled

Many’s the hour, love, with you I’ve spent

Dreamed you were my love forever

But now I find, love, you were only lent

I’ll go across the seas to England

To London or to Birmingham

And in some public house I’ll find you

Lamenting your lost love back home

I’m drunk today, I’m seldom sober

A handsome rover from town to town

When I am dead, my story ended

Molly Bán a stoirín, come lay me down

One starry night as I lay sleepin’

One starry night as I lay in bed

Dreamed I heard wagon wheels a’creakin’

Now that you’re gone, love, I might as well be dead