1. There's a sweet garden spot in our mem'ry.
It's the place we were born in and reared.
It's long years ago since we left it,
But return there we will if we're spared.
Our friends and companions of childhood
Would assemble each night near a score
'Round Dan Murphy's shop, and how often we sat
On the stone outside Dan Murphy's door!

CHORUS: Those days in our hearts we will cherish,
Contented although we were poor,
And the songs that were sung in the days we were young
On the stone outside Dan Murphy's door.

2. When our day's work was over we'd meet there
In the winter or spring just the same.
Then the boys and the girls all together
Would join in some innocent game.
Dan Murphy would take down his fiddle
While his daughter looked after the store.
The music did ring and sweet songs we would sing
On the stone outside Dan Murphy's door.

3. Back again will our thoughts often wander
To the scenes of our childhood's home.
The friends and companions we left there.
It was poverty caused us to roam.
Since then in this life we have prospered,
But still in our hearts we feel sore,
For mem'ry will fly to the days long gone by
And the stone outside Dan Murphy's door.

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as sung by the Dubliners on their 30 Years Celebration album

Andreas

George Henderson