Cliffs of Mohar - The Wolfe Tones

Oh, I met her on the Cliffs of Moher

A lovely girl in a lovely land

She said she came from Philadelphia

A city in a far-off land

She always wanted to see Ireland

A place she calls her ancestral home

Her people came from Tipperary

From Cork, from Belfast, and Tyrone

A land of beauty and of mystery

This ancient land that I love

A land of history and tragedy

This is the land I love

A land of beauty and tranquility

Of our music and of song

A land of mystery and history

This is the land I love (Ireland)

So, I walked around the Ring of Kerry

Killarney’s lakes and Cashel’s halls

Through lofty hills and pleasant valleys

She found a land that was her home

In the Georges Streets of Dublin city

Love blossomed like a summer’s rose

Then to Tara’s Hill of ancient legend

And New Grange at the evening’s close

A land of beauty and of mystery

This ancient land that I love

A land of history and tragedy

This is the land I love

A land of beauty and tranquility

Of our music and of song

A land of mystery and history

This is the land I love (Ireland)

Then we walked the streets of Ulster

We’ve seen a divided, troubled land

With emblems, flags, and colours blazing

A divided people, a divided land

On Antrim’s coast we saw great beauty

On the Causeway we took photographs

From Derry’s walls right through Lough Erne

We shared our jokes and songs and laughs

A land of beauty and of mystery

This ancient land that I love

A land of history and tragedy

This is the land I love

A land of beauty and tranquility

Of our music and of song

A land of mystery and history

This is the land I love (Ireland)

We said goodbye on the Cliffs of Moher

In a fleeting glance love passed us by

As the sun was merging with the ocean

And disappearing from the sky

Then the moon rose up in great defiance

For stars were twinkling in the sky

In the shadows of that summer’s evening

We kissed once more and said goodbye (Ireland)