Gaol of Cluain Meala

While the bright flowers are blowing

While the glad spring is glowing

My young life sowrn away

In Clonmel Gaol I lie

From my bride broken hearted

From my friends harshly parted

For a crime not my own

Doomed at daybreak to die

Oh my love never more will your fond arms embrace

By cold chains they're replaced in the Gaol of Cluain Meala

How hard is my fortune

How vain my repining

The strong rope of death

Eor this young neck will turn

My strength is departed

My cheeks sunk and sallow

While I pine in my chains in the Gaol of Cluain Meala

Oh my love never more will your fond arms embrace

By cold chains they're replaced in the Gaol of Cluain Meala

Now the time is upon me

Fare thee well my companions

For no more will I lie in the Gaol of Cluain Meala

While the bright flowers are blowing

While the glad spring is glowing

Let me rest in my grave

Far from the Gaol of Cluain Meala

Oh my love never more will your fond arms embrace

By cold chains they're replaced in the Gaol of Cluain Meala