Lyrics - Banks Of The Roses by Clancy Brothers

On the banks of the roses, my love and
I sat down
And
I took out my violin to play my love a tune
In the middle of the tune,
O she sighed and she said
O
Johnny, lovely
Johnny,
Would you leave me
O when
I was a young man,
I heard my father say
That he'd rather see me dead and buried in the clay
Sooner than be married to any runaway
By the lovely sweet banks of the roses
O then
I am no runaway and soon
I'll let them know
I can take a good glass or leave it alone
And the man that doesn't like me, he can keephis daughter home
And young
Johnny will go roving with another
And if ever
I get married, twill be in the month of
May
When the leaves they are green and the meadowsthey are gay
And
I and my true love can sit and sport and play
On the lovely sweet banks of the roses

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