Eileen Aroon - Liam Clancy

Eileen Aroon

Traditional

I know a valley fair, Eileen Aroon

I know a cottage there, Eileen Aroon

Far in the valley shade I know a tender maid

Flow’r of the hazel glade, Eileen Aroon

Who in the song so sweet, Eileen Aroon

Who in the dance so fleet, Eileen Aroon

Dear are her charms to me, dearer her laughter free

Dearest her constancy, Eileen Aroon

Were she no longer true, Eileen Aroon

What would her lover do, Eileen Aroon

Fly with a broken chain, far o’er the sounding main

Never to love again, Eileen Aroon

Youth will in time decay, Eileen Aroon

Beauty must fade away, Eileen Aroon

Castles are sacked in war, chieftains are scattered far

Truth is a fixed star, Eileen Aroon