The Auld Triangle - Luke Kelly

A hungry feeling came o’er me stealing

And the mice were squealing in my prison cell

And the old triangle went jingle jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal

To begin the morning a screw was bawling

'Get up you bowsie and clean up your cell'

And the old triangle went jingle jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal

On a fine spring evening the lag lay dreaming

The seagulls wheeling high over the wall

And the old triangle went jingle jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal

The lags were sleeping, Humpy Gussy was creeping

As I lay there weeping for my girl Sal

And the old triangle went jingle jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal

The wind was rising and the day declining

As I lay pining in my prison cell

And the old triangle went jingle jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal

In the female prison there are seventy five women

'Tis among them I wish I did dwell

And the old triangle went jingle jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal

The day was dying and the wind was sighing

As I lay crying in my prison cell

And the old triangle went jingle jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal