It was in the Mayflower Ballroom in the town of Drumshanbo
Where I met my former comrades that I’d worked with long ago
In the mountains of Arigna where we mined for hard crow-coal
And there’s nothing brings you closer than the men who shared your soul
Chorus:
There’s union in reunion in the ballroom
There’s union in reunion in the hall
There’s union in reunion in the ballroom
Where mining men are comrades all
In the county of Roscommon is a Connaught Coalfield scene
That is sleeping in my memory like a winter’s morning dream
For it’s there up in those mountains that I first went to the mine
And I crossed myself in worship as I entered that dark shrine
Chorus:
Oh there’s Wynne, O’Reilly, Leyden and more names that I can tell
That are carved in mining history and I’m sure you know them well
But the names that mean much more to me are those around me now
In the ballroom of Drumshanbo for those coal seams we did plough
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