A hungry feeling came oger me stealing

And the mice were squealing in my prison cell

And the auld triangle went jingle-jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal

To begin the morning

A screw was bawling

Get up you bowsie and clean up your cell

And the auld triangle went jingle-jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal

The lags were sleeping

Humpy Gussy was creeping

As I lay there weeping for my girl Sal

And the auld triangle went jingle-jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal

Up in the female prison there's seventy-five women

And among them I wish I did dwell

Then the auld triangle could go jingle-jangle

All along the banks of the Royal Canal

All along the banks of the Royal Canal