The Clancy Brothers - The Irish Rover (Alternate Take) Lyrics

Lyrics The Irish Rover (Alternate Take) - The Clancy Brothers



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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