The Pride Of The Allow

I have not seen her since nineteen sixty three But memories of her great beauty today are with me Her shoulder length dark hair and lovely eyes of brown The most beautiful woman in old Kanturk Town Then in her early twenties near her physical prime Of her mental pictures i retain despite the passing of time But i was quite young then a lad of sixteen And to the ways of love and of life rather green The sun it was shining on a lovely Spring day And the hawthorns were cloaked in their white blooms of the May She smiled and said hello to me on passing my way A beautiful memory that with me does stay A beautiful young woman from the Town of the River Allow One can say of her she had the inner glow Though her i was never for to see again Memories of her beauty with me does remain Though time as we know becomes everyone's foe This beautiful memory is with me from decades ago The wind tossing her dark hair in fancy i see The Pride of the Allow smiling at me.