Music and lyrics by Richie Kavanagh
Chorus
Ah Me father was a fairy, me mother a banshee.
Thats why when I was born, I was a leprechaun ye see.
Me father had a fairy bush an’ a great big fairy ring.
Me mother being a banshee, would always wail an’ sing.
We lived in the Knock in Carrigbeg not far from Ballinakill.
An’ the gallery that we had, there is in me memory still.
We did no harm ta no one, no were no times in our lives.
Being leprechauns an’ fairy’s sure we had so many lives.
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Ah Me father was a fairy, me mother a banshee.
That’s why when I was born, I was a leprechaun ye see.
Me father had a fairy bush an’ a great big fairy ring.
Me mother being a banshee, would always wail an sing.
I remember now the sad night, when me mother would start ta wail.
Was then we’d knew some crater there health was going to fail.
Ah the night that they would die, oh me mammy start ta cry.
You’d hear that awful wailing, all across the moonlit sky.
Me father had a happy life spelling everyone.
He done it for the gallery, sure he never done no wrong.
He showed me how to mend me shoes with a hammer an’ a last.
He showed me how to fiddle-di-di an’ how a spell was cast.
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Ah Me father was a fairy, me mother a banshee.
That’s why when I was born, I was a leprechaun ye see.
Me father had a fairy bush an’ a great big fairy ring.
Me mother being a banshee would always wail an sing.
Now I have a place of me own, here in the rocks an’ stones.
An’ every night I sit down an’ I rest me weary bones.
All around me there’s loads of gold in jars an’ skillet pots.
But you will never find it ‘cos I’ll tie ye up in knots.
Chorus
Ah Me father was a fairy, me mother a banshee.
Thats why when I was born, I was a leprechaun ye see.
Me father had a fairy bush an’ a great big fairy ring.
Me mother being a banshee would always wail an sing.
A little fairy family inside a fairy ring.
‘Ye have ta believe in somethin’ lad”