[Verse]
Now the Autumn leaves are falling and the tourists have all gone,
And the children they have all gone back to school,
And my life is as it was before, I work eight hours a day,
But the company's still making all the rules.

But there's a girl in Massachusetts, "South of Boston town" she said,
And her lovely face is with me all the day,
Sure I met her down in old Tralee, golden hair upon her head,
And I took her heart and she stole mine away.

[Chorus]
Goodbye my Boston beauty, farewell my Boston rose,
I'll wait for you, I'll think of you, no threat to you I'll pose,
Goodbye my Boston beauty, farewell my Boston rose,
I wish that you were here but I know that's the way life goes.

[Verse]
There's a song we sang all summer in the bars of Dublin town,
I can hear it on the factory radio,
And the feelings I remember when I hear that simple tune,
Make me wonder if it really happened so.

For we laughed and loved together till the summer days were gone,
And she had to fly across the ocean wide,
So goodbye my Boston beauty, until we meet again,
And I'll keep the fire burning deep inside.

[Chorus]
Goodbye my Boston beauty, farewell my Boston rose,
I'll wait for you, I'll think of you, no threat to you I'll pose,
Goodbye my Boston beauty, farewell my Boston rose,
I wish that you were here but I know that's the way life goes.

[Verse]
And some nights when I'm drinking and my friends have gathered round,
Well just for fun someone brings up your name,
Well I smile there with the rest of them but I can't hear a sound,
I love you but to them it's all the same.

And nights when I'm alone, my love, you come into my mind,
And visions flash upon that inward eye,
Well I watch the moon there up above, then I'll leave this earth behind,
And I'll call to you as I go sailing by.

[Chorus]
Goodbye my Boston beauty, farewell my Boston rose,
I'll wait for you, I'll think of you, no threat to you I'll pose,
Goodbye my Boston beauty, farewell my Boston rose,
I wish that you were here but I know that's the way life goes,
I wish that you were here, so farewell my Boston rose.