The Dubliners - The Stone Outside Dan Murphy's Door lyrics

There's a sweet garden spot in our memory It's the place we were born and reared It's long years ago since we left it But return there we will if we're spared Our friends and companions of childhood Would a**emble each night near a score Round Dan Murphy's shop and how often we sat On the stone outside Dan Murphy's door Those days in our hearts we will cherish Contented although we were poor And the songs that we sung in the days we were young On the stone outside Dan Murphy's door When our day's work was over we'd meet there In the winter or spring just the same Then the boys and the girls all together Would join in some innocent game Dan Murphy would take down his fiddle While his daughter looked after the store The music did ring and sweet songs we would sing On the stone outside Dan Murphy's door Those days in our hearts we will cherish Contented although we were poor And the songs that we sung in the days we were young On the stone outside Dan Murphy's door Back again will our thoughts often wander To the scenes of our childhood's home The friends and companions we left there It was poverty caused us to roam Since then in this life we have prospered But still in our hearts we feel sore For memory will fly to the days long gone by And the stone outside Dan Murphy's door Those days in our hearts we will cherish Contented although we were poor And the songs that we sung in the days we were young On the stone outside Dan Murphy's door