The Former Pride Of Millstreet West

Long before time it did become her foe
She danced in the Star Ballroom years ago
Of wavy shoulder length brown hair and always well dressed
She was the former Pride of Millstreet West

So beautiful and down to earth and tall
In Millstreet West the fairest of them all
But in Millstreet West not one destined to stay
The bug of wander from there did lure her away

She left Duhallow when she was nineteen
And in Millstreet West  was never more to be seen
In her first home-place never to be seen again
And Duhallow's loss was somewhere else's gain

I wonder did she marry or as single did she remain?
Mental pictures of her youthful beauty i have to retain
Since she danced in the Star some fifty years gone by
On looking back the Seasons time did seem to fly

I wonder has she been aging in a graceful way
Or with hair dyes and makeup does she cloak time's decay?
And time does not wait as the wise one did say
Yet in my memory she has not aged a day.