North Amerikay barndance

This is a song, in an album "An Irish Evening" by The Chieftains.

This version is easier to play on fiddle:

K: D
A2 | d2 dc B2 B2 | ABAG F2 FA | G2 GF E2 C2 | D6 de |
|: f2 d2 g2 f2 | e3c A2 FA | d2 d2 efec |1 d6 de :|2 d6 FA ||
d2 dc B2 B2 | ABAG F3 A | G2 GF E2 C2 | HD4 |]

Ye lovers all both great and small
Who dwell in Ireland
Oh I pray you pay attention
whilst I my pen command
It was my father’s anger
That drove my love away
But I still have hopes we’ll meet again
In North Amerikay

My love he was fair and handsome
And to him I gave my heart
Ah but little was our notion
That we would ever part
It was in my father’s garden
That this flower it did decay
But I still have hopes twill bloom again
In North Amerikay

Now I did not want for money
Kind fortune on me shone
So out of my father’s castle
I took 300 pounds
It was in the town of Belfast
My passage I did pay
And then set sail across the sea
To far Amerikay

Now the captain’s wife was kind to me
As you may understand
And she kept me in her cabin
Until we reached dry land
It was in the town of Quebec
We landed on the cay
But I knew not where to seek my love
In all Amerikay

Now I being sick and sore and tired
Well I went into an inn
And it was there I found my William
The lad I loved within
He took me gently by the hand
And to me he did say
Oh I never thought I’d see your face
In North Amerikay

Now I hear this couple has got wed
As you may understand
And I hear they live quite happily
In a town they call St. Johns
And the money that she took from home
Well in gold she paid it down
And they think no more of Ireland
Nor Enniskillen town