A hungry feeling

Came o'er me stealing

And the mice were squeeling

In my prison cell

To begin the morning

The warden bawling

"Get up out of bed, boy! 

And Clean up your cell!"



And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal



On a fine Spring evening

The loike lay dreaming

And the sea-gulls squeeling

High above the wall

Oh! the day was dying

And the wind was sighing

As I lay there crying

In my prison cell



And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal



Oh! the screw was peeping

And the loike was sleeping

As he lay there weeping

For his poor gal



And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal



In the female prison

There are seventy women

And I wish to god it was with them

That I did dwell



And the auld triangle went jingle-jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal

And the auld triangle went jingle-jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal