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Lyrics for Limerick Rake by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Limerick Rake | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 200 | | | | Lyrics: | The Limerick Rake
I am a young fellow that's easy and bold,
In Castletown Conners
I'm very well known;
In Newcastle West I spent many a note
With Kitty and Molly and
Mary.
My parents rebuked me for being such a rake
And spending my time in such frolicsome
ways,
But I ne've could forget the good nature of Jane,
Agus fagaimid siud mar ata
se.
My parents, they reared me to shake and to sow,
To plough and to harrow, to reap and
to mow;
But my heart was too airy to drop it so low,
I set out on a high
speculation.
On paper and parchment they taught me to write
And in Euclid and grammar they
opened my eyes,
But in multiplication, in truth, I was bright,
Agus fagaimid siud mar ata
se.
To quarrel for riches I ne'er was inclined,
For the greatest of misers must
leave them behind;
I'll purchase a cow that will never run dry
And I'll milk her by
twisting her horn.
John Damer of Shronel had plenty of gold
And Devonshire's treasure was
twenty times more,
But he's laid on his back among nettles and stones,
Agus fagaimid siud
mar ata se.
If I chance for to go to the market at Croom,
With a cock in my hat and my
pipes in full tune,
I am welcome at once and brought up to a room
Where Bacchus is
sporting with Venus.
There's Peggy and Jane from the town of Bruree,
And Biddy from Bruff
and we all on the spree,
Such a combing of locks as there was about me,
Agus fagaimid siud
mar ata se.
There's some say I'm foolish, there's more say I'm wise,
For love of the
women I'm sure 'tis no crime;
For the son of King David had ten hundred wives
And his
wisdom is highly recorded.
I'll till a good garden and live at my ease
And the women and
children can partake of the same,
If there's war in the cabin, themselves are to
blame,
Agus fagaimid siud mar ata se.
And now for the future I mean to be wise,
And
I'll send for the women that treated me kind;
And I'll marry them all on the morrow, by and
by
If the clergy agree to the bargain.
And when I'm on my back and my soul is at
peace
The women will crowd for to cry at my wake,
And their sons and their daughters will
utter their prayers
To the Lord for the sake of their father.
Recorded by Patric
Galvin
See also LIMERPRG, CHAMP1, CHAMP2, FKLAMENT
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