The goal is to collect the lyrics Andy has sung both as a solo artist & with the various groups he’s performed with over the years into one central location. We have made a good start but we need your help.
Andy Irvine Lyrics Archive
If anyone has any lyrics we’re missing & would like to submit them it would be a big help!
To the best of my knowledge Andy’s contributions to Sweeney’s Men, Planxty & Mozaik are complete. Solo works, Collaborations & Patrick Street sections need some love, but they are filling out nicely.
(corrections to incorrect lyrics are also welcome!)
Andy Irvine News 
Here are the lyrics to Mall of Lismore, from the 1977 The Gathering album.
These will be printed in Irish Music Magazine this coming October along with a commentary.
THE MALL OF LISMORE
Come all you fair maids take a warning
And it’s never a soldier take wed
Or else like myself you’ll be mourning
Far better live single instead
For once I was young and light hearted
But now all my pleasures are o’er
Since my darling has gone and he’s left me
All alone in the Mall of Lismore
As I went a walking one morning
Down by the sweet banks of the Finn
I met with a dashing young soldier
And soon my poor heart he did win
I thought him both handsome and charming
His features I ne’er saw before
But alas has gone and he’s left me
All alone in the Mall of Lismore
To Dublin his regiment was ordered
And my soldier he didn’t take long
In picking a dispute with his Sergeant
And it was for this misfortune was wronged
He was handcuffed and tied with a halter
And his back with the lash was made sore
And that was the reason he left me
All alone in the Mall of Lismore
Farewell to the banks of Blackwater
And adieu to my parents and home
Since my father her disowned his own daughter
In some foreign valleys I’ll roam
May he always be blessed with good fortune
And I hope that I’ll meet him once more
But alas has gone and he’s left me
All alone in the Mall of Lismore
Excellent submission thank you so much!