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Galway Races
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As I rode to Galway Town to seek for recreation,
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On the 17th of August, me mind being elevated,
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There were multitudes assembled with their tickets at the station,
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My eyes began to dazzle and I'm going to see the races,
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With me Whack, Fol-da-da, Fol-da-diddly-ida- day.
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There were passengers from Limerick and more from Tipperary,
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Boys from Connemara and a flair of married ladies,
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People from Cork City who were loyal, true and faithful,
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Who brought home the Fenian prisoners from dying in foreign nations.
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It's there you'll see the pipers and the fiddlers competing,
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The nimble-footed dancers a-tripping o'er the daisies,
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There were others crying cigars and likes, and bills for all the races,
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With the colours of the jockeys and the price and horses ages.
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It's there you'll see the jockeys and they're mounted out so stately,
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The pink, the blue, the orange and green, the emblem of our nation,
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When the bell was rung for starting, all the horses seemed impatient,
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I thought they never stood on ground their speed was so amazing.
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There was half a million people there from all denominations,
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The Catholic, the Protestant, the Jew and Presbyterian,
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There was yet no animosity, no matter what persuasion,
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But sportsman hospitality and induce fresh acquaintance.
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