Annika - Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye

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While goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo

Goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo

Goin' the road to sweet Athy

A stick in me hand and a tear in me eye

A doleful damsel I heard cry,

Johnny I hardly knew ye.

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With your drums and guns and guns and drums, hurroo, hurroo

With your drums and guns and guns and drums, hurroo, hurroo

With your drums and guns and guns and drums

The enemy nearly slew ye

Oh my darling dear, Ye look so queer

Johnny I hardly knew ye.

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Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo

Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo

Where are your legs that used to run

When you went to carry a gun

Indeed your dancing days are done

Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye.

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Nota: 'Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye' é uma melodia folk que pertence à cultura Irlandesa. É uma 'anti-war song' que data do começo do século XIX, do tempo em que os soldados irlandeses ajudavam as tropas da British East India Company. A Wikipédia acrescenta 'The original refers to the soldiers from Athy, County Kildare that fought in 'Sulloon' (Ceylon - present day Sri Lanka) for the East India Company in what history knows as the Kandyan Wars.' É de referir também, a simplicidade de harmonizações vocais que a melodia permite.

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