I Have Seen Just A Little

I have seen just a little of the big World out there Since i left the green countryside far north of here where My eyes first looked on the bright lamp of day From here by sky thousands of kilometers away From the fields of the badger and the silver back crow Where Finnow's babbling waters to the Blackwater flow To this far Southern Land of the emu and roo And the big dark brown parrot yellow tailed black cockatoo Many Springs have gone by since i last have seen Snowdrops, bluebells and primroses on the ditch of bohreen Nodding in the breeze in April's drizzling rain Only memories of what was with me now remain The lust of the wander did carry me south Of the stream of the dipper and the wild brown trout New challenges in life elsewhere for to meet But no nuggets of gold to be picked on the faraway street All i have left are the good memories of the what used to be And so much of the big World out there i am never to see The roadways of life i have been up and down Since i left the green countryside by Millstreet Town.