Better Days Ahead

I was scuffling' hard and drinkin' down around Lough Ree

Diggin' graves or buskin' made no difference to me

Month to month, and week to week from hand to mouth I ran

A million miles a minute, and a stubborn foolish man

Well I took a walk long Green Street to kill the morning chill

She was sellin' scones and brandy, a finger in the till

A double shot to hold me, a straightner in the wind

If I ever thought I knew for sure I'll never know again

She was cool and she was kind

'Til she made me lose my mind

We've got better days ahead

Many more where they came from

Don't chase 'em all away my friend

'Til your heart goes numb

It's a long hard road they say

With a fiddler on the way I will swear by better days

Well the world is flat where I come from we got no place to hide

No bridge across the ocean to reach the sons that died

Now they say she's livin' on the coast a baby on the way

The winter wolf outside the door south of Galway Bay

I never bought that fishin' boat my second best laid plan

She must have known my penance was a scam

She was cool, she was kind

'Til she made me lose my mind