Teddy O'Neill

I dreamt all last night, oh bad 'cess to my dreaming

I'd die if I thought t'would come surely to pass

I dreamt while the tears down my pillow were rolling

That Maggie was courting from another young Lad

And didn't I wake with a weeping and a wailing

The pain in my heart was too deep to conceal

And all I could answer was: Maggie O'Neill

I've see the old cabin beyond the wee boreen

I've see the old crossroads where we used to dance

I ramble the lane where she called me her story

And my foolish heart was so full of romance

But now all is so dark and so dreary

All dark and all silent, no piper, no reel

Not even the sun through the casement shines cheery

Since I lost my darling Girl, Maggie O'Neill

Shall I ever forget when the big ship was ready

And the time it was come for my love to depart

How I cried like a child, oh goodbye to you, Maggie

With a tear on my cheek and a stone in my heart

She said t'was to better her fate, she went roaming

But what would be gold to the Love I would feel

If she'd only come back to me tender and loving

Yet poor but my own, darling Maggie O'Neill