I'm thinking tonight of you old pal
And wishing that you were here
And dreaming of the times and the days gone by
When you filled my heart with cheer
I remember the nights when all alone
We sang sweet Adeline
No others face can take your place
In my heart old pal of mine
The old pals are always the best you see
New friends you can find every day
But they can't fill the faces forever dear
Like the old pals of yesterday
Walking with my children in the good old country side
Sharing all my time with them fills me up with pride
Teaching them the good life makes me full of joy
The way my father taught me back when I was a boy
That was so long ago, but it's in my memory still
When I think about the old folk it gives my heart a thrill
There was never any money, just a good old fashioned way
That's the place where I was raised in, it's where I'm going to stay
Some people like to travel, far across the foam
But I'll always be contented, just to stay at home
If you travel there's big money, or so I have been told
But I think the grass is greener, on my side of the road
He stood in a beautiful mansion surrounded by riches untold
He gazed at a beautiful picture that hung in a frame of gold
It was a picture of a lady so beautiful young and fair
Was a beautiful child-like vision he murmured in sad despair
If those lips could only speak if those eyes could only see
If the beautiful golden tresses where there in reality
Could I only take your hand as I did when you took my name
But it's only a beautiful picture, in a beautiful golden frame
For fame and for fortune, I wondered the earth
But now I've returned to, the land of my birth
I brought back my treasures, but only to find
They're less than the treasures, I first left behind
For these are my mountains and this is my glen
The days of my childhood, I seek 'em again
No lands ever claimed me, departed I roam
For these are my mountains and I'm going home
Oh my lovely rose of Clare, you're the sweetest girl I know
You're the queen of all the roses, like the pretty flowers that grow
You are the sunshine of my life, so beautiful and fair
And I will always love you, my lovely rose of Clare
The sun it shone out like a jewel, on the lovely hills of Clare
As I walk around with my sweet love, one evening at the fair
Her eyes they shone like silver streams, with her long long golden hair
And I won the heart of a young sweet lass, my lovely rose of Clare
Oh my lovely rose of Clare, you're the sweetest girl I know
You're the queen of all the roses, like the pretty flowers that grow
You are the sunshine of my life, so beautiful and fair
And I will always love you, my lovely rose of Clare
And I will always love you, my lovely rose of Clare