Nell Flaherty's Drake-The Clancy Brothers

[ti:Nell Flaherty's Drake] [ar:The Clancy Brothers] [al:Irish Folk & St. Patrick's Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Nell Flaherty's Drake - The Clancy Brothers [00:04.56]Oh my name it is Nell and the truth for to tell [00:07.87]I come from Cootehill which I'll never deny [00:11.57]I had a fine drake and I'd die for his sake [00:15.15]That me grandmother left me and she goin' to die [00:19.14]The dear little fellow his legs they were yellow [00:22.66]He could fly like a swallow or swim like a hake [00:26.23]Till some dirty savage to grease his white cabbage [00:30.16]Most wantonly murdered me beautiful drake [00:33.32] [00:34.65]Now his neck it was green almost fit to be seen [00:37.81]He was fit for a queen of the highest degree [00:41.66]His body was white and it would you delight [00:45.18]He was plump fat and heavy and brisk as a bee [00:48.94]He was wholesome and sound he would weigh twenty pound [00:52.46]And the universe round I would roam for his sake [00:56.09]Bad luck to the robber be he drunk or sober [00:59.82]That murdered Nell Flaherty's beautiful drake [01:03.73] [01:04.53]May his spade never dig may his sow never pig [01:07.85]May each hair in his wig be well trashed with the flail [01:11.59]My his door never latch may his roof have no thatch [01:14.83]May his turkeys not hatch may the rats eat his meal [01:18.65]May every old fairy from Cork to Dun Laoghaire [01:22.29]Dip him snug and airy in river or lake [01:25.82]That the eel and the trout they may dine on the snout [01:29.21]Of the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty's drake [01:33.30] [01:34.14]May his pig never grunt may his cat never hunt [01:37.33]May a ghost ever haunt him the dead of the night [01:41.04]May his hens never lay may his horse never neigh [01:44.69]May his coat fly away like an old paper kite [01:48.35]That the flies and the fleas may the wretch ever tease [01:52.03]May the piercin' March breeze make him shiver and shake [01:55.69]May a lump of the stick raise the bumps fast and quick [01:59.25]On the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty's drake [02:02.98] [02:03.87]Well the only good news that I have to infuse [02:07.08]Is that old Paddy Hughes and young Anthony Blake [02:10.83]Also Johnny Dwyer and Corney Maguire [02:14.08]They each have a grandson of my darlin' drake [02:18.07]May treasure had dozens of nephews and cousins [02:21.67]And one I must get or me heart it will break [02:25.30]For to set me mind easy or else I'll run crazy [02:29.18]So ends the whole song of Nell Flaherty's drake