I'll be home soon enough he said  And kissed my cheek too lightly  Then he sprang into the saddle  And set my heart to beating wildly  My love was but a lad back then  And when his Irish blood was up  I daren't hold him from the world outside  A slab and shingled hut  CHOURUS1   So the sad refrain of hoof beats echoed over the plains   And the eerie fading chime of hoble chains   Oh I felt a fool to let him go now my heart mourns the days   'Til I hear those hobl chains echo home and the chime of hoble chains  Now in the dimming hours  When I lay down alone  I long to see his shadow  In the hearths dying glow  And I strain to hear him rifing  Through the moonlit iron bark  My wearly heart is haunted  For too long we've been apart  CHORUS2   And the sad refrain of hoof beats echoed over the plains   And the eerie fading chime of hoble chains   Oh I felt a fool to let him go now my heart mourns the days   'Til I hear those hobl chains echo home and the chime of hoble chains  Oh I felt a fool to let him go now my heart mourns the days  'Til I hear those hobl chains echo home and the chime of hoble chains