You told me that you would come back some day to me at Ballyhoe But never a word since you went away from me so long ago The hours are long, the lonely days are drifting into years Oh it's getting late but I still wait with eyes growing dim with tears Oh do you remember the hawthorn nuts we gathered every spring Do you remember the reels we danced around the fairy ring And do you remember a promise made beneath a chestnut tree But best of all my artsome one do you remember me I wander along by the lakeside now at sunset's early glow Just thinking of all the dreams I dreamed of you so long ago The whispers come, the whispers go they echo over the sea The foreign land and the foreign strands have stolen you from me Oh do you remember the hawthorn nuts we gathered every spring Do you remember the reels we danced around the fairy ring And do you remember a promise made beneath a chestnut tree But best of all my artsome one do you remember me But best of all my artsome one do you remember me