A lovely girl in a lovely land.
She said she came from Philadelphia,
a city in a far -off land.
She always wanted to see Ireland,
a place she called her ancestral home.
A land of beauty and of mystery
This ancient land that I love
A land of mystery and tragedy
Land of beauty and tranquillity
A land of mystery and history
Everybody come on! Ireland
So I brought around the ring of Kerry
Through lofty hills and pleasant valleys
She found the land that was her home
In the Georgian streets of Dublin City
Love blossomed like a summer's rose
Then to Tower's Hall of ancient legend
A new age at the evening's close
A land of beauty and of mystery
This ancient land that I love
A land of history and fragility
A land of beauty and tranquillity,
of our music and our song
A land of mystery and mystery,
Then we walked the streets of Ulster
We've seen a divided troubled land
With emeralds flags and banners blazing
A divided people, a divided land
On Antrim's coast, we saw great beauty
On the causeway, we took photographs
From Derry's walls, down to the Dairon
We shared our jokes and songs and laughs
A land of beauty and of mystery,
this ancient land that I love.
A land of history and tragedy,
A land of beauty and tranquillity,
I am a mystery and mystery,
In a fleeting glance love passed us by
As the sun was merging with the ocean
And disappearing from the sky
And the moon rose up in great defiance
The stars were twinkling in the sky
In the shadows of a summer's evening,
we kissed once more and said goodbye
Okay, this is your last chance
