[Verse]
We were sitting on the wall upon a Sunday,
And watching the girls go by,
And a thinking I'd be married to one, one day,
When Kate Flynn caught my eye.

Ah man, she had the makings of a fairy,
And she made the boys all swear,
"There's not one girl in the whole wide world,
Like the darling girl from Clare."

[Chorus]
Every man have got the finest plan,
You ever see now, barring me now,
Every day there's one of them will say,
"That she'll agree now, you'll see now."

All night they fight as to which of them was right,
On the colour of her eyes or hair,
But not a word from me was ever heard,
About the darling girl from Clare.

[Verse]
Says Casey, "Tis the father I'd be pleasing",
When I'll tell him of the land I've tilled,
And I'll tell him of the cattle I have grazing
And the house I mean to build.

And when he sees the animals on the pastures
And the fat stock feeding there,
And the hens and the chickens,you may go to the dickens
For the girl from the County Clare.


[Chorus]
Every man have got the finest plan,
You ever see now, barring me now,
Every day there's one of them will say,
"That she'll agree now, you'll see now."

Says I to meself, "Though I haven't got the pelf,
Of brass I've got my share,
And so I know the way they ought to go,
About the darling girl from Clare."

[Verse]
Says Sweeney, "She'll be coming to the shop here,
For to buy some sort of thing,
And I'll ask her if she has a mind to stop there,
And should I buy the ring."

"And when she sees the curtains on the windows,
And the clock on the stair,
Keeping time to the minute, no one else will be in it
With the darling girl from Clare."

[Chorus]
Every man have got the finest plan,
You ever see now, barring me now,
Every day there's one of them will say,
"That she'll agree now, you'll see now."

Thinks I, "Ye may stop till your dead in your shop,
And not a hair she'll care,
With all your gold you'll never hold a hold,
Upon the darling girl from Clare."

[Verse]
Oh, I never said a single word about her,
And I met that girl one day,
And I told her I could never live without her,
And what had she to say.

Oh, she said, "You'd better go and ask me father",
And I met him then and there,
And in less than an hour we were fighting for the dower,
Of the darling girl from Clare.

[Chorus]
Every man have got the finest plan,
You ever see now, barring me now,
Every day there's one of them will say,
"That she'll agree now, you'll see now."

There late last night when the moon was bright,
I asked her if she'd share,
All me joy and me sorrow and begorrah on tomorrow,
I'll be married to the girl from Clare.

[Chorus]
Every man have got the finest plan,
You ever see now, barring me now,
Every day there's one of them will say,
"That she'll agree now, you'll see now."

There late last night when the moon was bright,
I asked her if she'd share,
All me joy and me sorrow and begorrah on tomorrow,
I'll be married to the girl from Clare.