Hi, I found this title on a Johhny McEvoy CD and followed it up and got the words on an "Ofally" site. It may be the one you're looking for.
THE TOWN I LEFT BEHIND.
Last night as I lay sleeping, a dream came to my mind About a place I love so well, the town I left behind And down the years I travelled to days so long ago I swear to you I never saw a face I didn't know.
CHORUS:And sometimes when I'm lonesome, I think of where I'm from. On Cuba Street, where old friends meet, the Shannon where we swam. And I can see that old bog road, with turf piled to the sky Oh Banagher you'll be my town until the day I die.
Agai I walked the Lusmagh fields, where often I did stray And once again I saw old friends, the friends of yesterday The Dolans and the Lunhams, the Mallons and the Ryans What memories these evoke, of far off happy times.
Chorus. And 'round the town I wandered, I knew my way so well And when I saw the old sports field, where first I learned to hurl I heard the curlews lonesome call across the callows still And watched the crows fly 'round the ruins of Wallers' falling mill
Chorus
But now I'm in St. Louis, it's here I've made my home I've watched my life drift slowly by, I've seen my children grown And though this land's been good to me and happiness I've found Just one more time I'd love to see The town I left behind
Chorus and repeat last two lines.
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