By a lonely prison wall   I heard a young girl calling   Michael they are taking you away   For you stole Trevelyans corn   So the young might see the morn   Now a prison lay waiting in the bay      Chorus:   Low lie the fields of Athenry   Where once we watched the small free birds fly   Our love was on the wing   We had Dreams and songs to sing   It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry      By a lonely prison wall   I heard a young man calling   Nothing matters Mary when you're free   Against the famine and the crown   I rebelled they cut me down   Now you must raise our child with dignity      Chorus      By a lonely harbour wall   She watched the last star falling   As the prison ship sailed out against the sky   Or she live in hope and pray   For her love in Botany bay   It's lonely around the fields of Athenry      Chorus