From the 1903 operetta “Babes in Toyland”.
Words by Glen MacDonough.
Music by Victor Herbert.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- He’s a lad from County Clare
(‘Tis the wild ones comes from there)
An’ be sure ’tis in his coat a rogue you’ll see
O’er the girls he casts a spell
Oh, I know that very well
(For bechune us from that spell I am not free
There’s no colleen in the land
Could his iliquince withstand
Should he spake to her as he has spoke to me
Refrain
“Me heart have ye stole, yure the thief of me soul
Me sinses ye have taken, too
Both fair Trojan Helen an’ Vaynus excellin’
They’d ne’er hold a rush light to you
Mavourneen! Mavourneen!
Sure one kiss would be no sin
For I love you, Alanna
Your slave is poor Barney O’ Flynn!”
- ‘Tis no rest or peace I know
An’ I often bid him go
For to one I’m sure he never could be true
But he answers, “Ah, mavrone
Faith ’tis you I love alone
Wid your tresses all of gold and eyes so blue!”
Thin before he laves me door
I’ve forgiven him once more
For wid blarney such as his what can you do
Sung here by Vancha March: