Lyrics

Journey Man
Music and Lyrics: Rising Gael

Journeyman came up one night
With walking he was weary
A journeyman came up one night
When the moon shone bright and clearly
He spied a fox upon the road
Running through the heather
He caught that fox upon the road
Whose eyes where quick and clever

CHO
Johnny's gone this night to town
He's on his way tonight
When morning comes no need to work
For gold and silver bright

The fox said sir let me free
And keep me from the town-o
The fox said sir wishes three
I'll grant before the dawn-o
The first one said the journeyman
Pointing to his whiskey
My first wish to you is that
My bottle'll never be empty

CHORUS

To test his wish the young man drank
But could not drain the bottle
Before too long the young man sank
And the fox began to smile
When morn's first light crept o'er the brink
And still the young man slumbered
The fox he hid the young mans drink
And left him there bewildered

CHORUS (2x)