River Allow

River Allow from the Mullagheirk Mountains along the Cork Limerick border winds it's way Near Kanturk it joins River Dalua babbling onwards night and day At Ballymaquirk it enters the Blackwater to increase the big river's flow The true age of River Allow anybody would not know This ancient Munster waaterway over decades of time Has inspired song and story and the men and women of rhyme Have written so much about it long before story and song And long before it became known as River Allow it was babbling along To join the big river flowing to the Pacific shore Through a country green and beautiful it will flow forever more The journeys of the rivers to the oceans began Long before the age of the dinosaurs or the birth of the first woman and man By the Cork and Limerick border it will flow forever more To join the Blackwater River to the far Atlantic shore