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In the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and six
We set sail from the port quay of Cork
We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
For the grand city hall in New York
We'd a near-leaking craft, she 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
And there was Bobby McGee from the banks of the Leith
There was Hogan from county Tyrone
There was John D. McGirk, 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 of the Irish Rover
We had one million bags of the best Sligo rags
We had two million barrels of bone
We had three million bales of old nanny goats' tails
We had four million barrels of stone
We had five million hogs and six million dogs
And seven million barrels 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 the ship lost her way in the fog
And the whale of the crew was reduced down to two
'Twas meself and the captain's old dog
Then the ship struck a rock, oh, Lord what a shock
I nearly tumbled over
Turned nine times around and the poor old dog was drowned
I'm the last of the Irish Rover.




The Clancy Brothers - The Rising of the Moon
Album The Rising of the Moon
date of release
13-03-2015

1   The Work of the Weavers (Live)
2   The Irish Rover (Alternate Take)
3   The Barnyards of Delgaty (Live)
4   My Johnny Lad
5   Johnny Mceldoo (Alternate Take)
6   The Lark in the Morning
7   I Know Who Is Sick
8   The Little Beggerman (Alternate Take)
9   As I Roved Out
10   The Rising Of The Moon
11   Shoals of Herring
12   Blow Ya Winds
13   Rockin' the Cradle
14   In the Month of January
15   Tipperary Far Away
16   The Whistling Gypsy
17   The Bold Tennant Farmer
18   O Donnell Aboo
19   Portlairge
20   The Irish Rover
21   Kitty Magee
22   Hornpipe (Live)
23   Jig
24   A Jug of Punch (Live)
25   The Moonshiner (Alternate Take)
26   Cruiscin Lan
27   The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe
28   Roddy McCorley
29   Whiskey, You're the Devil (Alternate Take)
30   The Month of January
31   Rothsea O
32   An Bhruinnlin Bheasach
33   Brennan On the Moor
34   The Wild Colonial Boy
35   Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go
36   Mrs Mcgrath
37   As I Roved Out (Alternate Take)
38   The Bard of Armagh
39   Kelly the Boy from Killanne
40   The Wran Song (The Wren Song)
41   The Connemara Cradle Song
42   Jug of This
43   Haul Away Joe
44   Courting in the Kitchen (Live)
45   Rennan On the Moor
46   Rosin the Bow
47   God Bless England (Live)
48   Johnny McEldoo
49   The Men of the West
50   The Lowlands of Holland (Alternate Take)
51   The Work of the Weavers
52   Whiskey, You're the Devil (Take 2)
53   Mick McGuire
54   Mr Moses Ri-Tooral-I-Ay
55   Eileen Aroon
56   My Bonnie Boy
57   The Whistling Thief
58   Finnigan's Wake
59   Bungle Rye
60   Hornpipe (My Love She's but a Lassie Yet)
61   Bold Thady Quill
62   When I Was Single
63   Eamonn an Chnoic
64   Singin' Bird
65   The Croppy Boy
66   The Castle of Dromore
67   Mountain Dew
68   Courting in the Kitchen
69   Kevin Barry
70   The Foggy Dew (Alternate Take)
71   The Stuttering Lover
72   Ballinderry
73   Marie's Weddin
74   The Lowlands of Holland
75   The Cobbler
76   Whack Fol the Diddle
77   Druimin Donn Dilis
78   The Rising of the Moon (Live)
79   A Jug of Punch
80   Maggie Pickens
81   Mcpherson's Lament
82   Old Woman from Wexford
83   The Old Orange Flute
84   The Barnyards of Delgaty
85   The Real Old Mountain Dew
86   The Parting Glass
87   Amhran Dochais
88   Sean Dun Na Ngall
89   Holy Ground
90   Roisin Dubh
91   Nell Flaherty's Drake
92   Paddy Doyle's Boots
93   Reel
94   The Jolly Tinker
95   October Wind
96   South Australia
97   The Maid of Fife-E-O
98   The Wind That Shakes the Barley
99   The Butcher Boy
100   The 23rd of June
101   The Jug of Punch
102   Bold O Donahue
103   Young Roddy Mccorley
104   Dowdling
105   The Minstrel Boy
106   Boulavogue
107   Barbara Allen
108   The Moonshiner
109   The Little Beggarman
110   Reilly's Daughter
111   The Foggy Dew
112   Whiskey You're the Devil
113   Tim Finnegan's Wake
114   Johnny I Hardly Knew You
115   I'll Tell My Ma




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