I May Never Again

I may never again see the fields of Millstreet And people i have known there i may never more meet Old Claraghatlea i have not seen for twenty six years Though for what has been i have shed all of my tears The Seasons go by i am running out of time More than three decades have passed since i was in my life's prime In Claraghatlea nowadays my first old homeplace Mine to many there would be a stranger's face Though the changes are happening in Millstreet and in Millstreet Town In view of old Clara in it's face of brown The old fields i loved would look much the same Some of them i recall had their own given name Though great change is occurring in the World of today The now is all that matters as some like to say Yet in fancy i can hear the male chaffinch sing On a leafy silver birch tree in the prime of the Spring And the song of the dipper where Finnow waters flow Through old fields where rushes in clusters do grow The past may be gone but the memories remain With me of an old place i may never see again Claraghatlea in Millstreet from here far away Where to many i would be a stranger today And the past just a memory to the forever gone And time does not wait and life does go on.