I`ll be home soon enough he said
And kissed my cheek too lightly
Then he sprang into the saddle
And set my heart to beating wildly
My love was but a lad back then
And when his Irish blood was up
I daren`t hold him from the world outside
A slab and shingled hut
CHOURUS1
So the sad refrain of hoof beats echoed over the plains
And the eerie fading chime of hoble chains
Oh I felt a fool to let him go now my heart mourns the days
`Til I hear those hobl chains echo home and the chime of hoble chains
Now in the dimming hours
When I lay down alone
I long to see his shadow
In the hearths dying glow
And I strain to hear him rifing
Through the moonlit iron bark
My wearly heart is haunted
For too long we`ve been apart
CHORUS2
And the sad refrain of hoof beats echoed over the plains
And the eerie fading chime of hoble chains
Oh I felt a fool to let him go now my heart mourns the days
`Til I hear those hobl chains echo home and the chime of hoble chains
Oh I felt a fool to let him go now my heart mourns the days
`Til I hear those hobl chains echo home and the chime of hoble chains