A hungry feeling, came o'er me stealing   And the mice, were squealing in my prison cell   And that auld triangle went jingle jangle   All along the banks of the Royal Canal      Oh, to start the morning with warden bawling   Get up out of bed you, and clean out your cell   And that auld triangle went jingle jangle   All along the banks of the Royal Canal      The screw was peeping and the lag was sleeping   As he lay weeping for his girl Sal   And that auld triangle, went jingle jangle   All along the banks of the Royal Canal      On a fine spring evening, the lag lay dreaming   And the seagulls were wheeling high above the wall   And that auld triangle, went jingle jangle   All along the banks of the Royal Canal      Oh, the wind was sighing, and the day was dying   As the lag lay crying in his prison cell   And that auld triangle, went jingle bloody jangle   All along the banks of the Royal Canal      In the women's prison there are seventy women   And I wish it was with them that I did dwell   And that auld triangle, went jingle jangle   All along the banks of the Royal Canal