I have waited long for you to come back home   to hear you call my name again   in my heart's deep soul you've not changed at all   and the years have passed you by   your sweet lips that lingered on my skin   i can feel their heat again   and your eyes that thrilled with passion's fire   they watch my every whim      some say my love, sweet love was lost   while crossing the raging main   or perhaps he has gone with some other girl   I might never see his face again   but if my irish love is lost he's the one I do adore   and for seven long years i'll wait for him   on the banks of the moorlough shore      he said farewell to castles grand   farewell to the foggy hills   where the linen waves like bleaching silk   and the falling stream runs still   near there we spent our joyful days but alas they are all gone   for cruelty has banished him   far away from the moorlough shore