I built you an altar with the god of happiness
A Buddha, a glass dolphin and a brooch
By the Potato Diggers and The Goose Girl beside them
Golden earrings that caused such reproach
And a Christmas novena of Joseph and Mary
Under palms on a bridge of a brook
And I did love you, placed none above you
You stole me away, Shadowy
You stole me away, Shadowy
Ooh, oh, oh, Shadowy
Ooh, oh, oh, Shadowy
She may be in Durban or in Ballyhaunis
While the dragon is hiding the moon
And I’d love to forgive her and I long to be with her
Still in vain search and search for the tune
And I oft think I see her on the pier by the seashore
Or on the hill where we made heather beds
And I did love you, placed none above you
You stole me away, Shadowy
You stole me away, Shadowy
Ooh, oh, oh, Shadowy
Ooh, oh, oh, Shadowy
- Written by Jimmy MacCarthy
Jimmy MacCarthy 