It’s been ten years and three since I first went to sea

Since I sailed from old Ireland and home

But those hills lush and green were a part of my dreams

When I dreamed of my Colleen Malone

On the day I returned to my sorrow I learned

That the Angels had called her away

To a grave on a hill overlooking the mill

That’s the place where she’s sleeping today

Chorus:

As the soft breezes blow through the meadow I go

Past the mill with the moss covered stone

Up the pathway I climb through the woods and the vines

To be with my Colleen Malone

She was faithful each day as I sailed far away

There was no one but me that she loved

I remember those eyes soft and blue as the skies

And her heart was as pure as a dove

Chorus:

As the soft breezes blow through the meadow I go

Past the mill with the moss covered stone

Up the pathway I climb through the woods and the vines

To be with my Colleen Malone

All the years of my life I will not take a wife

I will live in this valley alone

Planting flowers around in this soft gentle ground

That is holding my Colleen Malone

Chorus:

As the soft breezes blow through the meadow I go

Past the mill with the moss covered stone

Up the pathway I climb through the woods and the vines

To be with my Colleen Malone

Up the pathway I climb through the woods and the vines

To be with my Colleen Malone