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(Source: as heard)
| In Dublin town, where I did dwell |
| A butcher boy I loved so well. |
| He courted me my life away |
| And now with me he will not stay. |
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| I wish, I wish, but I wish in vain. |
| I wish I was a maid again. |
| But a maid again, I ne'er can be, |
| Til apples grow on an ivy tree. |
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| She went upstairs to go bed, |
| And calling to her mother said, |
| "Bring me a chair til I sit down, |
| And a pen and ink til I write down." |
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| I wish, I wish, but I wish in vain. |
| I wish I was a maid again. |
| But a maid again, I ne'er can be, |
| Til apples grow on an ivy tree. |
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| He went upstairs and the door he broke, |
| And found her hanging from a rope. |
| He took his knife and cut her down, |
| And in her pocket, these words he found. |
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| "Oh, make my grave large, wide, and deep. |
| Put a marble stone at my head and feet. |
| And in the middle, a turtle dove, |
| So the world may know I died of love." |
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Notes
The first couple stanzas can be heard, complete with fake scratchiness to sound like a record, playing on a restaurant jukebox in The Butcher Boy. Sinéad herself plays the Virgin Mary, who appears in the protagonist's dreams. In one scene, she sings a bit of a song called "Beautiful Bundoran," which is credited in the movie, but isn't on the soundtrack, and hasn't been released in any other way.
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