Traditional Irish
| x4 |
| On Raglan Road of an Autumn day, |
| I saw her first and I knew. |
| That her dark hair would weave a snare, |
| that I might one day rue. |
| I saw the danger and yet-I-passed, |
| a-long the en-chanted way. |
| And I said: "Let grief be-a-falling leaf, |
| at the dawning of the day." |
| On Grafton Street in Novem-ber, |
| we tripped lightly a-long the ledge. |
| Of a deep ra-vine where can be seen, |
| the-true-worth of passion's pledge. |
| The Queen of Hearts still making tarts, |
| and I not making hay. |
| For I loved too much and by such, by such |
| is happiness thrown a-way. |
| I gave her gifts of the mind, |
| I gave her the secret sign. |
| That's known to the artists who have known, |
| the-true-Gods of sound and stone. |
| And words and tint I did not stint, |
| for I gave her poems to say. |
| With her own name there and her long dark hair, |
| like clouds over fields of May. |
| On a quiet street where old ghosts meet, |
| I see her walking now. |
| A-way from me so hurried-ly, |
| my reason must al-low. |
| That I have loved not as I should, |
| a creature made of clay. |
| When the angel wooo-s the clay he'll lose, |
| his wings, at the dawn of day. |
| When the angel woo-s... the clay, he'll lose, |
| his wings, at the dawn of day ... |