When I Was In My Twenties

When I was in my twenties seems like only yesterday I thought I'd never grow older my hair would never gray But our life's prime passes quickly and time keeps ticking on And now in my early sixties my better years long gone. The wanderlust was in me I left the old Homeplace And I might seem a stranger now where mine was a known face Since I left a generation into adulthood have grown In Claraghatlea by Millstreet Town where I was once well known. From that old place in Duhallow I've been so long away And a stranger in the old Town I well might seem today Most of those I went to school with I have not seen for years Yet for my fading memories I do not have any tears. The Finnow flowing in the old fields to the Blackwater to the sea Or old Clara in Duhallow I never more may see There now I might feel a stranger since few would know of me And a migrant in this Southern Land is all I'll ever be.