🎵 The Auld Triangle // by Brendan Behan

1 ContributorThe Auld Triangle Lyrics A song written by Irish writer and playwright Brendan Behan (1923-1964), during his stay in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin. The Royal Canal is an old shipping canal that cuts across the north of Dublin and heads… Read More  A hungry feeling came o'er me stealing And the mice were squealing in my prison cell And that auld triangle went jingle jangle All along the banks of the Royal Canal Oh to start the morning, the screw was bawling "Get up out of bed, and clean out your cell" And that auld triangle went jingle jangle All along the banks of the Royal Canal Oh the screw was peeping and the lag was sleeping As he lay weeping for his girl Sal And that auld triangle went jingle jangle All along the banks of the Royal Canal On a fine spring evening, the lag lay dreaming And the seagulls were wheeling high above the wall And that auld triangle went jingle jangle All along the banks of the Royal Canal Oh the wind was sighing and the day was dying As the lag lay crying in his prison cell And that auld triangle went jingle jangle All along the banks of the Royal Canal In the female prison there are seventy five women And I wish it was with them that I did dwell And that auld triangle could go jingle jangle All along the banks of the Royal Canal