Mullingar Fleadh The Wolfe Tones

The Mullingar Fleadh will be never forgot
By those who were there and by those who were not
The craic, it was good and the music was grand
The jigs and the reels and the songs of our land
There was banjos and whistles and bodhráns and pipes
And fiddles and zithers and flutes of all types!

[Chorus]
And we sang the old songs, sure, the old fashioned songs
Strike up an ol' tune and we'll all sing along
And begob, sure, we never did know no wrong
And we sang the great songs of old Ireland

I heard the pipes played with the magical sound
I've seen a jig danced and they ne'er touched the ground
'Twas attended by all, both the living and the dead
The sane and insane, sure, they all shared a bed
And Bagus and Venus, they sported and played
And the weekend extended by four to five days

[Chorus]
And we sang the old songs, sure, the old fashioned songs
Strike up an ol' tune and we'll all sing along
And begob, sure, we never did know no wrong
And we sang the great songs of old Ireland