Tommy Makem - Irish Rover Lyrics

Lyrics Irish Rover - Tommy Makem



In the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and six
We set sail from the Coal Quay of Cork
We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
For the grand City Hall in New York
We'd an elegant craft, it was rigged 'fore and aft
And how the trade winds drove her
She had twenty-three masts and she stood several blasts
And they called her the Irish Rover
There was Barney Magee from the banks of the Lee
There was Hogan from County Tyrone
There was Johnny McGurk who was scared stiff of work
And a chap from Westmeath named Malone
There was Slugger O'Toole who was drunk as a rule
And fighting Bill Tracy from Dover
And your man Mick McCann, from the banks of the Bann
Was the skipper on the Irish Rover
We had one million bags of the best Sligo rags
We had two million barrells of bone
We had three million bales of old nanny goats' tails
We had four million barrells of stone
We had five million hogs and six million dogs
And seven million barrells of porter
We had eight million sides of old blind horses' hides
In the hold of the Irish Rover
We had sailed seven years when the measles broke out
And our ship lost her way in a fog
And the whole of the crew was reduced down to two
'Twas myself and the captain's old dog
Then the ship struck a rock, oh, Lord what a shock
And nearly tumbled over
Turned nine times around then the poor old dog was drowned
I'm the last of the Irish Rover



Writer(s): Joseph Crofts


Tommy Makem - Ultimate Collection (Special Extended Remastered Edition)

1 The Cobbler (Bonus Track)
2 I'll Tell My Ma
3 A Jug of Punch
4 O Donnell Aboo
5 Holy Ground
6 Brennan On the Moor
7 Irish Rover
8 Haul Away Joe
9 The Maid Of Fyfe-E-O
10 Will Ye Go, Lassie Go
11 Kevin Barry
12 Old Woman from Wexford
13 The Barnyards of Delgaty
14 Johnny I Hardly Knew You
15 Bold O'Donahue
16 The Wran Song
17 The Jolly Tinker
18 McPherson's Lament
19 The Parting Glass
20 I Know Who Is Sick
21 Portlairge
22 Reilly's Daughter
23 Amhran Dochais
24 Finnegan's Wake
25 Shoal O Herring
26 Whack Fol the Diddle
27 The Bard of Armagh
28 Whiskey Your the Devil
29 Routhsea-O
30 Courting in the Kitchen
31 Mountain Dew
32 South Australia
33 As I Roved Out
34 The 23rd Of June
35 Paddy Doyle's Boots
36 Rosin The Bow
37 The Work of the Weavers
38 Mick McGuire
39 The Butcher Boy
40 Roddy McCorley
41 Singin' Bird
42 The Castle of Dromore
43 Connemara Cradle Song
44 Eileen Aroon
45 The Men from the West
46 Bungle Rye
47 The Moonshiner
48 Mr Moses Ro-Tooral-I-Ay




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