Limerick Rake-The Dubliners

[ti:Limerick Rake] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:A Drop Of The Hard Stuff] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Limerick Rake - The Dubliners [00:03.61]I am a young fellow that's easy and bold [00:07.20]In Castletown conners I'm very well known [00:10.69]In Newcastle West I spent many a note [00:13.86]With Kitty and Judy and Mary [00:17.09]My parents rebuked me for being such a rake [00:20.45]And for spending my time in such frolicsome ways [00:22.97] [00:23.82]I ne'er could forget the good nature of Jane [00:26.99]Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé [00:30.26]My parents had reared me to shake and to mow [00:33.75]To plough and to harrow to reap and to sow [00:36.49] [00:37.06]Me heart being too airy to drop it so low [00:40.01]I set out on high speculation [00:42.02] [00:43.45]On paper and parchment they taught me to write [00:46.20] [00:46.79]In euclid and grammar they opened my eyes [00:49.31] [00:50.20]And in multiplication in truth I was bright [00:53.53]Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé [00:56.91]If You've chance for to go to the town of Rathkeale [00:59.83]The girls all round me do flock on the square [01:03.14]Now some offer me apples and others sweet cakes [01:06.18]And treats me unknown to their parents [01:09.36]There is one from Askeaton and one from the Pike [01:12.22]And another from Arda my heart was beguiled [01:14.72] [01:15.73]Tho' being from the mountains her stockings are white [01:19.35]And I'd love to be tightenin' her garters [01:21.91] [01:23.02]Now to quarrel for riches I ne'er was inclined [01:25.99]For the greatest of misers must leave them behind [01:28.60] [01:29.48]But I'll purchase a cow that will never run dry [01:32.90]And I'll milk her by twisting her horn [01:34.99] [01:35.82]John Damer of Shronel had plenty of gold [01:38.96]And Lord Devonshire's treasure is twenty times more [01:42.15] [01:42.68]But should'em laid on their back among nettles and stones [01:46.44]Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé [01:49.70]This old cow can be milked without clover or grass [01:52.70]She's be pampered with corn sweet corn and hops [01:56.06] [01:56.76]She'll be warm s he'll be stout she'll be free in her paps [02:00.92]And she'll milk without spancil or halter [02:02.90] [02:03.78]And the man that will drink it will cock his caubeen [02:06.68]And if anyone laughs well have be wigs on the green [02:08.68] [02:09.20]And the feeble old hag will get supple and free [02:12.82]Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé [02:16.26]There's some say I'm foolish and more say I'm wise [02:19.87]But being fond of the women I think is no crime [02:22.55] [02:23.44]Sure the son of King David had ten hundred wives [02:27.02]And his wisdom was highly regarded [02:29.08] [02:29.76]I'll take a good garden and live at my ease [02:33.43]And each woman and child could partake of the same [02:36.16] [02:37.32]If there be war in the cabin themselves they could blame [02:40.57]Agus fágaimíd siúd mar atá sé [02:43.38] [02:43.90]But now for the future I think I'll get wise [02:47.16]And I'll marry all those women who acted so kind [02:49.83] [02:50.90]Aye I'll marry them all on the morrow by and by [02:53.66] [02:54.21]If the clergy agreed to the bargain [02:55.82] [02:57.02]And when I'll be old and my soul be at rest [02:59.63] [03:00.23]All those children and wives they could cry at my wake [03:03.26] [03:04.16]And they all gathers round and they offers their prayers [03:06.99] [03:07.96]To the Lord for the soul of their father