"the auld triangle" (b. behan)

(quadro de walter pichler)


"A hungry feeling
came o'er me stealing
and the mice were squeeling
in my prison cell
And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle
all along the banks of the Royal Canal

Oh! To start the morning
the warden bawling
"get up out of bed, you! And Clean out your cell!"
And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle
all along the banks of the Royal Canal

Oh! the screw was peeping
and the lag was sleeping
as he lay weeping
for his girl Sal
And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle
all along the banks of the Royal Canal

On a fine Spring evening
the lag lay dreaming
and the sea-gulls were wheeling
high above the wall
And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle
all along the banks of the Royal Canal

Oh! the wind was sighing
and the day was dying
as the lag lay crying
in his prison cell
And that auld triangle went jingle-bloody-jangle
all along the banks of the Royal Canal

In the women's prison
there are seventy women
and I wish it was with them
that I did dwell
Then that auld triangle could go jingle-jangle
all along the banks of the Royal Canal" (1)

THE POGUES



(1) retirado do cd dos Pogues, Red Roses for Me, 1984)