FINTONA FAIRIES

Did you hear that the fairies are home again

Up in the County Tyrone ?

Don’t you know they had promised to come again

When Ireland came into her own. ?

Well I’ll tell you it’s so and it’s me ought to know

And it gives me the greatest delight.

To be able to tell, that in yon flowery dell

I was out with the fairies last night

(Chorus)

Out with the fairies, at Fintona,

That’s where I was last night

Having a bit of a Jamboree

Under the shade of the Fairy tree

Doing the things that the fairies do

Under the pale moonlight.

Out with the Fintona faires

That’s where I was last night.

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Boys but the fairies are far behind,

In our modern dancing ways,

They think that the fiddlers should all be blind

As they were in the good old days

And I told them I knew a fiddler or two

Whose eye might be just slightly dim

But the worst seeing fiddler that ever I knew

Saw more than was healthy for him…..

( Chrous )

Out with the Fairies at Fintona

That is the place for me

Jiving around with the Fairy queen

“ Tripping “ it over the fairy green

I’ll tell them at home in the morning

When they ask where I stopped till daylight

Out with the fairies at Fintona

That’s where I was last night.

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So I’m glad that the fairies are home again

And I’m hoping the darlings will stay

And not take a notion to roam again,

To some country far, far, away.

I would have no excuse to go on the loose

And my chances would not be so bright

When I’d start to explain, to my wife Liza Jane

I was out with the fairies last night.

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( Chorus )

Out with the fairies at Fintona

That’s how I pass the time

Keeping the creatures in in company

It’s neither a sin nor a crime

Showing the young ones the Samba step

Seeing they do it right.

Out with the Fintona fairies,

That’s where I was last night.