[Verse]
I went away to fight a war that small nations might be free,
Got a soldiers guns and uniform to fight the enemy,
I was trained to shoot my fellow before he got to me,
And I danced with death in the mud and wept and prayed my home to see.

[Chorus]
So come over to me darling girl, come near me Molly dear,
You are as welcome as the flowers in May, you're welcome here to me,
No more I'll fire the musket shot or hear the cannon roar,
I've done my time, now you'll be mine, I'm yours for ever more.

[Verse]
While in the trenches there I thought who starts these bloody wars,
And thought of these great Irishmen who died on these strange shores,
Then a bomb did burst to the air it thrust some shrapnel fire and blood,
I escaped it then shot back at them and lay back in the mud.

[Chorus]
So come over to me darling girl, come near me Molly dear,
You are as welcome as the flowers in May, you're welcome here to me,
No more I'll fire the musket shot or hear the cannon roar,
I've done my time, now you'll be mine, I'm yours for ever more.

[Verse]
While I was off in foreign lands, fighting other peoples' wars,
Some gallant men were fighting here to free their native shore,
You shot our leaders of '16, saw our city sacked and burned,
Then you sent us in the Black and Tans, to greet our home return.

[Chorus]
So come over to me darling girl, come near me Molly dear,
You are as welcome as the flowers in May, you're welcome here to me,
No more I'll fire the musket shot or hear the cannon roar,
I've done my time, now you'll be mine, I'm yours for ever more.

[Verse]
I don't need your heroes welcome, I don't want your bugle call,
No brass band, no pipes and drums, no medal badge or star,
Just give me what you promised me when first I went to war,
That's freedom for old Ireland and I'll fight your wars no more.

[Chorus]
So come over to me darling girl, come near me Molly dear,
You are as welcome as the flowers in May, you're welcome here to me,
No more I'll fire the musket shot or hear the cannon roar,
I've done my time, now you'll be mine, I'm yours for ever more.