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Lyrics for Irish Rover by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Irish Rover | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 180 | | | | Lyrics: | THE IRISH ROVER
In the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and six
We set sail from
the fair cove of Cork.
We were bound far away with a cargo of bricks
For the fine city
hall of New York.
In a very fine craft, she was rigged fore-and-aft
And oh, how the wild winds drove her.
She had twenty-three masts and withstood several
blasts
And we called her the Irish Rover.
There was Barney McGee from the
banks of the Lee,
There was Hogan from County Tyrone.
And a chap called McGurk who was
scared stiff of work
And a chap from West Meade called Mellone.
There was
Slugger O'Toole who was drunk as a rule
And fighting Bill Casey from Dover.
There was Dooley from Claire who was strong as a bear
And was skipper of the Irish
Rover.
We had one million bales of old billy goats' tails,
We had two million
buckets of stones.
We had three million sides of old blind horses hides,
We had four
million packets of bones.
We had five million hogs, we had six million
dogs,
And seven million barrels of porter.
We had eight million bags of
the best Sligo rags
In the hold of the Irish Rover.
We had sailed seven
years when the measles broke out
And the ship lost her way in a fog.
And the whole of the
crew was reduced unto two,
'Twas myself and the captain's old dog.
Then the
ship struck a rock with a terrible shock
And then she heeled right over,
Turned nine times around, and the poor dog was drowned--
I'm the last of the Irish
Rover.
@laying @Irish @ship @sailor
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