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It was on a Friday afternoon in Dublin’s fair city
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I
was heading west, not making haste, I have somewhere to be
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When
I met a man on the Royal canal, making faster pace you see
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Well
I chanced my arm and I said to him, have you room on board for me
And I said
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“Carry
me up to Galway, carry me up today
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There’s a girl down there
who loves me and I must see right away
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Carry me up to Galway, carry me up today
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Carry
me up to Galway, it`s surely on your way” Well he said to me, he said said he, “I won’t be going
far
But if you help me with the locks my friend, we`ll get near Mullingar
I`ve a friend down there, he`s mighty fair
and I think he owns a car”
But he likes the beer, so when we got there, we found him in a bar
And I said
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Well
he let me borrow his old car and I started making ground
But I hadn`t gone I`d say ten miles when the old thing she broke
down
As I stood there on the roadside in despair began to cry
Till an old lad on a Honda 50, he came whizzing by
And
I said
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As I sat behind him contemplating as we bumped along the road
At least I won’t go hungry, cause
the flies I ate a load
But ten miles outside Galway we went our separate ways
So I stuck out my thumb, held up a sign
and on the sign I wrote
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Well it must be after midnight when I walked into that town
A journey long and perilous
but alive I made it down
But I got her answering machine and now I stand here in the rain
It said she`d gone to visit
me, she`d gone to Dublin on the train
Oh Lord!!
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