Colleen Malone

Leroy Drumm, Pete Gobel, 1990· Songs Well-Known in America · p.58

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It's been ten years and three since I first went to sea

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Since I've sailed from old Ireland and home

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But those hills lush and green were a part of my dream

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When I dreamed of my Colleen Malone

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On the day I returned to my sorrow I learned

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That the angels had called her away; To a grave on a hill overlooking the mill

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That's the place where she's sleeping today

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As the soft breezes blow, through the meadow I go

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Past the mill with the moss-covered stone

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Up the pathway I climb, through the woods and the vines

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To be with my Colleen Malone

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She was faithful each day as I sailed far away

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There was no one but me that she loved

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And I remember those eyes, soft and blue as the skies

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And her heart was as pure as a dove (Chorus)

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All the years of my life I will not take a wife, I will live in this valley alone

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Planting flowers around in the soft gentle ground

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That's holding my Colleen Malone (Chorus)