Take Me Back To Castlebar - Tara
I'm waiting for john murphy's van
To take me to the site
I've been working seven days a week
From morning to dark night
And when I get into the van
And gently close the door
The first thing that they ask me is
What I did the night before
Take me back to castlebar
In the county of mayo
It's the only place in ireland
I'm longing for to go
Where they greet you with a friendly smile
And they bid you time of day
When I set me foot in old mayo
I never more will stay
My dirty jack the ganger man
He talks about the times
Himself and old John Murphy
Worked deep down in the mines
He says he meets them often
At the dorchester hotel
If you want to get promotion
Get down and dig like hell
I'll take me back to castlebar
In the county of mayo
It's the only place in ireland
I'm longing for to go
Where they greet you with a friendly smile
And they bid you time of day
When I set me foot in old mayo
I never more will stay
Jack from connemara
When he gets in the hump
He talks about the money
He made while working on the lump
He blames old maggy Thatcher
And her government as well
He says he's made his money now
So they can go to hell
I'll take me back to castlebar
In the county of mayo
It's the only place in ireland
I'm longing for to go
Where they greet you with a friendly smile
And they bid you time of day
When I set me foot in old mayo
I never more will stray
There's another chap from Pakistan
No higher than a duck
He sells his wares upon the site
They fell off the back of a truck
He says he is a carpenter
And that might well be true
But I've never seen him working yet
For he is always in Berg
I'll take me back to castlebar
In the county of mayo
It's the only place in Ireland
I'm longing for to go
Where they greet you with a friendly smile
And they bid you time of day
When I set me foot in old mayo
I never more will stray
At the duke of york on saturday night
Mcgraley does remit
He says he first came over here in 1938
That was the year before the war
If me memory serves me clear
For written on the factory wall
Was no Irish wanted here
I'll take me back to castlebar
In the county of mayo
It's the only place in Ireland
I'm longing for to go
Where they greet you with a friendly smile
And they bid you time of day
When I set my foot in old mayo
I never more will stray
I'll take me back to castlebar
In the county of mayo
It's the only place in Ireland
I'm longing for to go
Where they greet you with a friendly smile
And they bid you time of day
When I set my foot in old mayo
I never more will stray
