If you that has your liberty

I pray you will draw near

A sad and dismal story

I mean to let you hear

While in a distant country

I languish sigh and moan

While I think of the days I spent

In Aran's lonely home



When I was young and in my prime

My age being twenty-one

I had become a servant

Unto a gentleman

I served him true an honest life

And very well 'tis known

But with cruelty he banished me

From Aran's lonely home

The reason why he banished me

I mean to let you know

'Tis true I loved his daughter

She loved me dear also

And she had got a fortune

Her riches I had known

And that is why he banished me

From Aran's lonely home



It was in her father's garden

All in the month of June

A-growing were those flowers

All in their youthful bloom

She said my dearest William

Along with me you may roam

And we'll bid adieu to all our friends

In Aran's lonely home



Unto my sad misfortune

Which proved my overthrow

That very night I gave consent

Along with her to go

The night being bright in moonlight

As we set out alone

A-thinking we might get away

From Aran's lonely home



But when we arrived at Belfast

Just at the break of day

My true love says she'll ready get

Our passage for to pay

Five thousand pounds she counted out

Saying this shall be your own

You will never fret for those you left

In Aran's lonely home



Unto my sad misfortune

Which you shall quickly hear

It was a few hours after

Her father did appear

He marched me away to Omas

In the County of Tyrone

It was there I got transported

From Aran's lonely home.



When I