N17

Well, I didn't see much future
 When I left the Christian Brothers School
 So I waved it goodbye with a wistful smile
 And I left the girls of Tuam
 And sometimes when I'm reminiscing
 I see the prefabs and my old friends
 And I know that they'll be changed or gone
 By the time I get home again
 And I wish I was on that N17
 (Stone walls and the grass is green)
 Yes, I wish I was on that N17
 (Stone walls and the grass is green)
 Traveling with just my thoughts and dreams
 Well, the old fella left me to Shannon
 Was the last time I traveled that road
 And as we turned left at Claregalway
 I could feel a lump in my throat
 As I pictured the thousands of times
 That I traveled that well-worn track
 And I know that things would be different
 If I ever decide to go back
 And I wish I was on that N17
 (Stone walls and the grass is green)
 Yes, I wish I was on that N17
 (Stone walls and the grass is green)
 Traveling with just my thoughts and dreams
 Now as I tumble down highways
 Or filthy overcrowded trains
 There's no one to talk to in transit
 So I sit there and daydream in vain
 And behind all these muddled up problems
 Of living on a foreign soil
 I can still see the twists and turns on the road
 From the square to the town of the tribes
 And I wish I was on that N17
 (Stone walls and the grass is green)
 Yes, I wish I was on that N17
 (Stone walls and the grass is green)
 Traveling with just my thoughts and dreams
 Oh, just traveling with my thoughts and dreams
 Stone walls and the grass is green
 Stone walls and the grass is green
 Stone walls and the grass is green
 Stone walls and the grass is green, yeah