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As I went down to Galway Town to seek for recreation
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On the seventeenth of August, me mind bein’ elevated
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There were multitudes assembled with their tickets at the station
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Me eyes began to dazzle - we’re goin’ to see the races
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With me wac fol the do fol the dithery idle aye
There were passengers from Limerick, and more from Tipperary
Boys of Connemara and the Clare Unmarried Maidens
People from Cork City who were loyal, true and faithful
They brought home the Fenian prisiners from dyin’ in foreign nations
It’s there you’ll see the pipers and the fiddlers competin’
The nimble-footed dancers a-trippin’ o’er the dasies
And others cryin’: cigars and pipes and bills for all the races
With the colors of the jockeys and the prices and horses’ ages
It’s there you’ll see the jockeys all mounted on so stately
The pink, the blue, the orange and green: the emblem of our nation
When the bell was rung for startin’ all the horses seemed impatient
You’d think they never stood on ground, their speed was so amazin’
There was half a million people there of all denominations
The Catholic, the Protestant, the Jew and Presbyterian
There was yet no animosity, no matter what persuasion
But sportin’ hospitality inducin’ fresh acquaintance