The Pogues - The Rocky Road to Dublin Lyrics

Lyrics The Rocky Road to Dublin - The Pogues



′Twas in the merry month of June from me home I started
Left the girls of Tuam nearly broken hearted
Saluted father dear, kissed me darling mother
Drank a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother
Then off to reap the corn, leave where I was born
Cut the stout black thorn to be on the shores to Dublin
Brand new pair of brogues rattlin' o′er the bogs
Fightin' all the dogs on the rocky road to Dublin.
One, two, three four, five
Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Dublin, whack follol de rah!
In Mullingar that night I rested tired and weary
Left the room next morning feeling bright and airy
Had a drop of the pure to keep me heart from sinking
That's a Paddy′s cure whene′er he's on the drinking
See the lassies smile, laughing all the while
At me curious style, ′twould set your heart a bubblin'
Asked me was I hired, wages I required
Till I was sick and tired of the rocky road to Dublin.
One, two, three four, five
Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Dublin, whack follol de rah!
In Dublin next arrived I thought it such a pity
To be so soon deprived a view of that fine city.
When I took a stroll all among the quality
Me bundle it was stole in the neat locality.
Something crossed me mind when I looked behind
No bundle could I find upon me stick a wobblin′
Asking for the rogue, they called me Connaught brogue
Wasn't much in vogue on the rocky road to Dublin.
One, two, three four, five
Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Dublin, whack follol de rah!
From there I got away, me spirits never failing
Landed on the quay, just as the ship was sailing.
The Captain at me roared that no more room had he
When I jumped aboard, a cabin found for Paddy.
Down among the pigs, played some hearty rigs
Danced some hearty jigs, the water round me bubblin′
When off Holyhead wished that I was dead
Or better for instead on the rocky road to Dublin.
One, two, three four, five
Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
And all the way to Dublin, whack follol de rah!
The boys of Liverpool, when we safely landed
Called meself a fool, I could no longer stand it
Blood began to boil, temper I was losing
Poor old Erin's Isle they began abusing
"Hurrah me soul" says I, me Shillelagh I let fly
Galway boys were nigh and saw I was a hobblin'
With a loud "hurray!" joined in the affray
Quietly cleared the way for the rocky road to Dublin.
One, two, three four, five
Hunt the hare and turn her down
The rocky road and all the way to Dublin,
Whack follol de rah!



Writer(s): James Thirkhill Fearnley, Philip Chevron, Darryl Gatwick Hunt, Jeremy Max Finer, Terry Woods, Shane Patrick Macgowan, Andrew David Ranken, Peter Richard Stacy


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1 The Kerry Polka
2 Night Train To Lorca - Demo
3 Boat Train - Demo
4 If I Should Fall From Grace With God - 12" Single Remix
5 Japan - Live in Tokyo
6 The Mistle Thrush - Outtake From The Peace And Love Album Recording Sessions
7 Nicaragua Libré - Outtake [From the If I Should Fall From Grace WIth God recording sessions]
8 Streets Of Sorrow - Demo
9 Shanne Bradley - Demo
10 Lullaby Of London - Demo
11 Battle March - Demo
12 If I Should Fall From Grace With God - BBC Janice Long Show October 10th 1986
13 Turkish Song Of The Damned - BBC Janice Long Show October 10th 1986
14 Victoria
15 Lust For Vomit
16 Moving To Moldova - Demo
17 The Girl From The Wadi-Hammamat - Demo
18 Murder - Version 1
19 Johnny Was - 17/11/1989 soundcheck, Gothenburg, Sweden.
20 Maidrín Rua - Outtake From Hell's Ditch Album Recording Sessions
21 Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah - 12" Single Remix
22 Murder - Version 2
23 Aisling - Outtake From Hell's Ditch Album Recording Sessions
24 The Black Dogs Ditch - Outtake From The Hell's Ditch Album Recording Sessions
25 Call My Name - Outtake From Pogue Mahone Album Recording Sessions
26 The Rake At The Gates Of Hell - BBC Janice Long Show October 10th 1986
27 When The Ship Comes In - Demo
28 Young Ned Of The Hill - Dub Version
29 Afro-Cuban Be-Bop - From the movie I Hired A Contract Killer
30 The Last Of McGee - Outtake from Hell's Ditch album sessions
31 Greenland Whale Fisheries - Demo
32 North Sea Holes
33 The Travelling People - Rehearsal Recording
34 Danny Boy - BBC John Peel Show December 4th 1984
35 Hot Asphalt
36 Do You Believe In Magic? - Poguetry in Motion EP Sessions Rough Mix
37 The Donegal Express / The Hen and the Cock are in Carrickmacross - Rehearsal Recording
38 Eve Of Destruction - Outtake from The Hells Ditch album sessions
39 Rince Del Emplacada
40 The Auld Triangle - BBC John Peel Show April 10th 1984
41 Connemara, Let's Go! (Aka Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go) - Demo
42 Junk Theme - From the soundtrack album of Sid And Nancy
43 Boys From The County Hell - BBC David 'Kid' Jensen Show June 21st 1984
44 Love Theme From Sid And Nancy - Outtake from the Sid And Nancy soundtrack recordings
45 The Aria
46 Driving Through The City
47 Something Wild
48 The Town That Never Sleeps
49 Sally Maclennane - BBC John Peel Show December 4th 1984
50 Goodnight Irene - Live at the Town and Country, London. March 1988
51 The Parting Glass / Lord Santry's Fairest Daughter - Live at Brixton Academy London 21 or 22 December 2001
52 Sound Of The City Night
53 Who Said Romance Is Dead?
54 The Sun And The Moon - Demo
55 Afro-Cuban Be-Bop - Single Version
56 Garbo (Aka In And Out) - From the movie and soundtrack release of Garbo
57 Haunted - 1986 Demo
58 The Rocky Road to Dublin
59 Living In a World Without Her (Demo)
60 Boys from the County Hell
61 Nw3
62 Four O'Clock in the Morning
63 The Star of the County Down (Live At Brixton Academy 21st or 22nd December 2001)
64 White City (Live At Brixton Academy 21st or 22nd December 2001)
65 Maggie May
66 Haunted (From the Movie and Soundtrack Album Sid and Nancy)
67 My Baby's Gone (Demo)
68 Waxies Dargle (Live In Sweden)
69 Repeal of the Licensing Laws (Demo)
70 Dark Streets of London (Demo)
71 Streams of Whiskey (Demo)
72 Poor Paddy On the Railway (BBC David 'Kid' Jensen Show June 21st 1984)
73 Sea Shanty (Demo)
74 Transmetropolitan (Demo)
75 Kitty (Demo)
76 Billy's Bones (BBC Janice Long Show July 3rd 1985)
77 The Old Main Drag (BBC Janice Long Show July 3rd 1985)
78 Rainy Night In Soho (Oboe Version)
79 Fairytale of New York (Extract from 1st Demo)
80 Fairytale of New York (Extract from 2nd Demo)
81 Fairytale of New York (Extract from 3rd Demo)
82 Navigator (Live In Sweden)
83 Sally Maclennane (Live At Glasgow Barrowlands)
84 A Pair of Brown Eyes (Live At Glasgow Barrowlands)
85 Kitty (Live At Glasgow Barrowlands)
86 Maggie May (Live At Glasgow Barrowlands)
87 Dirty Old Town (Live At Glasgow Barrowlands)
88 The Sickbed of Cuchulainn (Live At Glasgow Barrowlands)
89 Fiesta
90 Johnny Come Lately (From the Album Copperhead Road)
91 Got a Lot of Livin' to Do (NME Multi-artist Charity Compilation, The Last Temptation of Elvis)
92 The Wake of the Medusa (Demo)
93 Johnny Come Lately (Live 1989)
94 Miss Otis Regrets / Just One of Those Things (From the Red Hot and Blue Multi-artist Album)
95 All the Tears That I Cried (From the Cd Single 'My Affair')
96 The One and Only (From the Album 'Electric Landlady')




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