Sweet Dublin Bay

They sailed away on that gallant barque Roy Niell and his fair young bride They had ventured all on that bounding ship That danced on the silvery tide And his heart was young, and his spirit light As he kissed her tears away And they watched the shore retreat from sight Of their own sweet Dublin Bay

Three days they sailed when the storm arose And the lightnin' swept the beam When the thunder crash broke the sharp repose Of the wee three sailors sleep Roy Niell he clasped his weepin' bride And he kissed the tears away

"Oh aloft was a fear for lower" he cried "When we left sweet Dublin Bay" On the crowded deck of that doomed ship Some fairlander did despair And some o'er come wi' a whole yuir hearts Of the God of the storm an' prayer "She has struck a rock" the sailors cried An' their breath of wild dismay And that ship went down wi' the fair young bride That sailed from Dublin Bay

They sailed away in that gallant barque Roy Niell and his fair young bride They had ventured all on that bounding ship That danced on the silvery tide But his heart was young, and his spirit light As he kissed her tears away And they watched the shore retreat from sight Of their own sweet Dublin Bay