[Verse]
By a lonely harbour wall, I heard a young girl calling,
"Michael, they are taking you away,
For you stole Trevelyan's corn,
So the young might see the morn,
Now the prison ship lies waiting in the bay."

[Chorus]
Low lie the fields of Athenry,
Where once we watched the small free bird fly,
Our love was on the wing,
We had dreams and songs to sing,
And it's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.

[Verse]
By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young man calling,
"Ah, nothing matters, Mary, when you're free,
Against the famine and the Crown,
I rebelled, they ran me down,
Now you must raise our child with dignity."

[Chorus]
Low lie the fields of Athenry,
Where once we watched the small free bird fly,
Our love was on the wing,
We had dreams and songs to sing,
And it's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.

[Verse]
By a lonely harbour wall, she watched the last star falling,
As the prison ship it sailed out against the sky,
And she'll wait and she'll hope and she'll pray,
For her love in Botany Bay,
And it's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.

[Chorus]
Low lie the fields of Athenry,
Where once we watched the small free bird fly,
Our love was on the wing,
We had dreams and songs to sing,
And it's so lonely round the fields of Athenry,
Oh, it's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.