FOGARTY’S COVE

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featuring the Chor Leoni Men’s Choir
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LYRICS

We just lost sight of the Queensport light down the bay before us 
And the wind has blown some cold today with just a wee touch of snow 
Along the shore from Lazy Head hard abeam Half Island 
Tonight we’ll let the anchor go down in Fogarty’s Cove   

My Sally’s like the raven’s wing her hair is like her mothers

‘ With hands that make quick work of a chore and eyes like the top of a stove 

Come suppertime she’ll walk the beach wrapped in my old duffle 

With her eyes upon the masthead reach down in Fogarty’s Cove  

She will walk the sandy shore so plain

Watch the comber’s rollin ‘

Till I come to Wild Rose Chance again

down in Fogarty’s Cove 

She will walk the sandy shore again watch the comber’s roll in ‘

Till I come to Wild Rose Chance again down in Fogarty’s Cove  

She cries when I’m away to sea, nags me when I’m with her 

She’d rather I’d a Government job or maybe go on the dole.