Photographs of Derry streets and landmarks as they were then and as they are now

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00:11♪ Your hills and vales and flowery fields ♪

00:17♪ That lie near the water's shore ♪

00:23♪ Your vines that blow by gardens green ♪

00:29♪ Where hay and the seedling bloom ♪

00:34♪ Where the primrose bloom and the violet glow ♪

00:40♪ Where the turk and salmon play ♪

00:45♪ With my love and who delight I dream ♪

00:51♪ To spend my youthful days ♪

00:56♪ Last night I went to see my love ♪

01:03♪ And to hear what she might say ♪

01:08♪ To see if she take pity on me ♪

01:14♪ Lest I might go away ♪

01:19♪ She sang I love an Irish lad ♪

01:25♪ And he was my only joy ♪

01:30♪ And ever since I saw his face ♪

01:36♪ I have loved that soldier boy ♪

01:42♪♪

01:53♪ Perhaps your soldier lad is lost ♪

01:59♪ Sailing over the sea of men ♪

02:04♪ Or perhaps he's gone with some other one ♪

02:10♪ You may never see him again ♪

02:16♪ Well, if my Irish lad is lost ♪

02:22♪ He's the one I do adore ♪

02:27♪ And seven years I'll wait for him ♪

02:33♪ By the banks of the port of shore ♪

02:38♪♪