Miracles At Tubrid

Around the fire grate on Winter nights i often heard the old man of stories tell Stories of miracles that did occur at Tubrid's Holy Well Of people who were blind to light who suddenly could see He did impress on my young mind how amazing this place must be He said the Tubrid waters has cures for every known disease And it even cured an allergy that one old bloke had to fleas It cured people of cancer and it cured people of gout And drinking Tubrid water cured one of warts in the mouth He did relate a good tale to give the man his due And perhaps some of his Tubrid stories may have even been near to true But i was young and impressionable then and not hard to deceive And everything he told me of Tubrid i was willing to believe Of the praises of old Tubrid i feel happy to sing I often drunk cups of water of it's clear bubbling spring And though many people come to do their rounds there in the month of May Whether it is a place of miracles is not for me to say On wet and windy Winter nights around the peat fire grate Of miracles at Tubrid Well the old man did relate With the dreaded reaper of all lives he too has had his date Perhaps he tells his stories now up there by heaven's gate.