Draperstown

Let Draperstown flourish in yon valley so green,
O, let Draperstown flourish at Ballinascreen,
Its workshops be filled, and its houses be grand,
And its people a credit to all Ireland.

Let factories arise with their chimneys on high,
And the noise of industry roll up to the sky,
Let its people be happy, both orange and green,
O, let Draperstown flourish at Ballinascreen.

Its boys they are brave and its maidens are gay,
And I’ll sing of my home town by night and by day,
There is nothing to beat it where’ere I have been,
O, let Draperstown flourish at Ballinascreen.

There are towns that are bigger and richer by far,
But I don’t care about them wherever they are,
For my hearts at that spot in yon valley so green,
O, let Draperstown flourish at Ballinascreen.

I would like it to grow, I would like it to spread,
As it stands in the valley, in which I was bred,
And I picture it oft by Moyola’s clear stream,
O, let Draperstown flourish at Ballinascreen.

There’s a beauty around it, which few can describe,
From the shores at Lough Fea, to the green fields at Glebe,
From the banks at Lough Ouske to the Tonagh fields green,
O, let Draperstown flourish at Ballinascreen.

There are roads all around it, and hedges and fields,
And the valley in season, a rich harvest yields,
And the dairies are filled up with good milk and cream,
O, let Draperstown flourish at Ballinascreen.