The Irish Rover-The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem

[ti:The Irish Rover] [ar:The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem] [al:The Folk Collection 1955-1962] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Irish Rover - The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem [00:03.98]And the year of our lord eighteen hundred and six [00:07.74]We set sail from the port quay of cork [00:10.66] [00:11.71]We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks [00:15.54]For the grand city hall in new york [00:18.39] [00:19.88]We'd a near-leaking craft she was rigged fore [00:22.59]And aft and how the trade winds drove her [00:27.06]She had twenty-three masts and she stood several blasts [00:30.88]And they called her the irish rover and [00:36.70]There was bobby mcgee from the banks of the leith [00:39.60]There was hogan from county tyrone there was john [00:44.08]D mcgirk who was scared stiff of work and a chap from westmeath [00:49.16]Named malone there was slugger o'toole who was drunk as a rule [00:54.88]And fighting bill tracy from dover and your man mick mccann from the banks [01:01.07]Of the bann was the skipper of the irish rover [01:06.18] [01:07.04]We had one million bags of the best sligo rags [01:10.67]We had two million barrels of bone [01:13.56] [01:14.64]We had three million bales of old nanny goats' tails [01:18.39]We had four million barrels of stone [01:21.43] [01:22.20]We had five million hogs and six million dogs seven million [01:27.11]Barrels of porter we had eight million sides of old blind horses' hides [01:33.20]In the hold of the irish rover we had sailed seven years [01:39.97]When the measles broke out and the ship lost her way in the fog [01:44.91] [01:46.00]And the whale of the crew was reduced down to two 'twas meself [01:50.45]And the captain's old dog then the ship hit a rock oh lord [01:56.34]What a shock I nearly tumbled over turned nine times around [02:02.83]And the poor old dog was drowned I'm the last of the irish rover