Grandmother's Old Rocking Chair [French translation]

Well I courted your old gran, me son,

a long, long time ago.

And it's said that she was

the fairest of them all,

And I told her that I loved her

and I wanted her for mine

and I wrote it all along the factory wall.

Now she gave me six fine sons

and your father, he was one.

and she kept our home together

and a favorite she had none.

But the war, it cut the family down

to less than half its size.

and I watched your grandma

aging right before me very eyes.

She was bunny, she was fair and

we made a lovely pair.

I'd give all the world to see her

in the old rocking chair.

Now an angel called on us

one night to take your gran away

and I just had time to comb

and plait her hair.

And then the lonely times

did face me,

and it nearly broke me heart,

nobody else could fill that

rocking chair

She was bunny, she was fair and

we made a lovely pair.

I'd give all the world to see her

in the old rocking chair.

So now I climb the stairs at night

by the flicker of candlelight

and I look upon me shadow on the wall

and I can still remember when that

shadow once was two

and beside me stood the fairest

of them all

So now I lay me down to sleep,

I ? for my sweet las.

Oh I wish that things

were like they used to be

And I hope your grandma

hears me voice and tells

the Lord above

to send an angel down to

call on me

She was bunny, she was fair and

we made a lovely pair.

I'd give all the world to see her

in the old rocking chair.

She was bunny, she was fair and

we made a lovely pair.

I'd give all the world to see her

in the old rocking chair.

• Artist:The Irish Rovers