in early spring when small birds sing and lamb do sport and play my way i took my friends forsook and went to dublin bay i am what i ask a passenger and to england i sailed over and bade farewell to all of my friends and left the shamrock shore to london fair i did repair my fortune there to find i found it was a lovely place and pleasant to my eyes the ladies too were fairer to view and rich the purse they wore but none i saw could compare to the maids of the shamrock shore with the maids of the shamrock shore no one can compare no one can compare 