Clancy Brothers - Banks Of The Roses lyrics

On the banks of the roses, my love and I sat down<br />

And I took out my violin to play my love a tune<br />

In the middle of the tune, O she sighed and she said<br />

O Johnny, lovely Johnny, Would you leave me<br />

O when I was a young man, I heard my father say<br />

That he'd rather see me dead and buried in the clay<br />

Sooner than be married to any runaway<br />

By the lovely sweet banks of the roses<br />

O then I am no runaway and soon I'll let them know<br />

I can take a good glass or leave it alone<br />

And the man that doesn't like me, he can keep<br />

His daughter home<br />

And young Johnny will go roving with another<br />

And if ever I get married, twill be in the month of May<br />

When the leaves they are green and the meadows<br />

They are gay<br />

And I and my true love can sit and sport and play<br />

On the lovely sweet banks of the roses