Standard (EADGBE)
A hungry feeling
Came o'er me stealing
And the mice were squealing in my prison cell
Chorus
And the auld triangle
Went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal.
To begin the morning
A screw was bawling
Get up ya bousey and clean out your cell
Chorus
On a fine spring evening
The lag lay dreaming
The seagulls wheeling high above the wall
Chorus
The lag lay sleeping
Oh the loike was creeping
And I lay there weeping for my good girl Sal
Chorus
The wind was rising
And the day declining
As I lay pining in my prison cell
Chorus
Up in the female prison
There are seventy-five women
And it is among them that I wish I did dwell