Galway Races Songtext
von The Langer’s Ball

As I rode up to Galway Town
To seek for recreation
On the seventeenth of August
My mind been elevated
There′s multitudes assembled
With their tickets at the station
My eyes began to dazzle
As they're off to see the races
With your whack-fol-all-fol
Diddley-idle-ay


There are passengers from Limerick
Passengers from Kerry
And passengers from Wexford Town
And Claire unmarried ladies
People from Cork City
That were loyal, true, and faithful
They brought home Fenian prisoners
From dyin′ in foreign nations
With your whack-fol-all-fol
Diddley-idle-ay

Oh, it's there you'll see confectioners
With sugarsticks and dainties
And lozenges and oranges
The lemonade and raisins
Gingerbread and spices
To accommodate the ladies
And a big crubeen for thruppence
To be pickin′ at while you′re able
With your whack-fol-all-fol
Diddley-idle-ay


And it's there you′ll see the pipers
And fiddlers competin'
Ah, the nimble-footed dancers
Are trippin′ up on the daisies
Others cryin' cigars and lights
And bills for all the races
The colors of the jockeys
And the price and horses′ ages
With your whack-fol-all-fol
Diddley-idle-ay

It's there you'll see the jockeys are
They′re mounted on so slately
The blue, the pink, the orange, the green
The emblems of our nation
When the bell was rung for starting
All the horses seemed impatient
I thought they never stood on ground
Their speed was so amazing
With your whack-fol-all-fol
Diddley-idle-ay

And there were half a million people
There of all denominations
The Catholic and Protestant
And Jew and Presbyterian
Yet no animosity
No matter what persuasion
Cause failte hospitality
Induces fresh acquaintance
With your whack-fol-all-fol
Diddley-idle-ay

As I rode up from Galway Town
To seek for recreation
On the seventeenth of August
My mind been elevated
There′s multitudes assembled
With their tickets at the station
My eyes began to dazzle
As they're off to see the races
With your whack-fol-all-fol
Diddley-idle-ay

With your whack-fol-all-fol
Diddley-idle-ay

With your whack-fol-all-fol
Diddley-idle-ay