Lyrics




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 Diamond Collection
Album The Diamond Collection
date of release
06-03-2015

1   The Connemara Cradle Song
2   Johnny I Hardly Knew You
3   Bold Thady Quill
4   The Irish Rover
5   The 23rd of June
6   Paddy Doyle's Boots
7   Hornpipe (Live)
8   Cruiscin Lan
9   Roisin Dubh
10   Roddy McCorley
11   Kelly the Boy from Killanne
12   Rosin the Bow
13   My Johnny Lad
14   The Jug of Punch
15   The Work of the Weavers (Live)
16   Courting in the Kitchen
17   Johnny Mceldoo (Alternate Take)
18   Eileen Aroon
19   Whiskey, You're the Devil (Alternate Take)
20   Whack Fol the Diddle
21   The Little Beggarman
22   The Old Orange Flute
23   Tim Finnegan's Wake
24   The Barnyards of Delgaty (Live)
25   An Bhruinnlin Bheasach
26   God Bless England (Live)
27   Johnny, I Hardly Knew You (Alternative Version)
28   The Moonshiner (Alternate Take)
29   The Parting Glass
30   The Lowlands of Holland
31   The Bard of Armagh
32   I'll Tell My Ma
33   The Wild Colonial Boy
34   Brennan On the Moor
35   The Irish Rover (Alternate Take)
36   The Wind That Shakes the Barley
37   Amhran Dochais
38   The Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe
39   Blow Ya Winds
40   The Real Old Mountain Dew
41   Maggie Pickens
42   Nell Flaherty's Drake
43   The Castle of Dromore
44   The Stuttering Lover
45   Rennan On the Moor
46   The Maid of Fife-E-O
47   The Croppy Boy
48   Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go
49   Druimin Donn Dilis
50   Young Roddy Mccorley
51   Jug of This
52   I Know Who Is Sick
53   Portlairge
54   Bold O Donahue
55   South Australia
56   Rothsea O
57   Hornpipe (My Love She's but a Lassie Yet)
58   The Foggy Dew
59   The Lark in the Morning
60   Whiskey, You're the Devil (Take 2)
61   O Donnell Aboo
62   The Rising of the Moon (Live)
63   The Minstrel Boy
64   The Barnyards of Delgaty
65   The Work of the Weavers
66   Boulavogue
67   The Lowlands of Holland (Alternate Take)
68   Ballinderry
69   Eamonn an Chnoic
70   As I Roved Out (Alternate Take)
71   Sean Dun Na Ngall
72   Singin' Bird
73   In the Month of January
74   Old Woman from Wexford
75   Haul Away Joe
76   The Little Beggerman (Alternate Take)
77   Mountain Dew
78   The Whistling Gypsy
79   The Foggy Dew (Alternate Take)
80   Finnigan's Wake
81   Mr Moses Ri-Tooral-I-Ay
82   The Whistling Thief
83   Port Lairge (Alternative Take)




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