Darby O'Leary-The Dubliners

[ti:Darby O'Leary (1993 Digital Remaster)] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:Original Dubliners] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Darby O'Leary - The Dubliners [00:02.72]"One evening of latest as I happened to stray [00:10.12]To the county Tipperary I straightened me way [00:12.60]To dig for potatoes and work by the day [00:16.23]For a farmer called Darby O'Leary [00:18.68]I asked him how far we where bound for to go [00:24.39]The night being dark and a cold wind did blow [00:28.09]I was hungry and tired and me spirits where low [00:31.60]For I got neither whiskey nor water [00:35.66]The dirty ould miser he mounted his stead [00:38.37]To the Gull Belly mountains he road in great speed [00:42.02]I followed behind till my poor feet did bleed [00:45.38]When we stopped when his old horse was weary [00:49.97]When we came to his cottage I entered it first [00:53.36]It seems like a kennel or ruined old church [00:57.13]Says I to myself I am left in the lurch [01:00.53]In the house of old Darby O'Leary [01:02.62]I well recollected was mickle must night [01:07.55]To a hearty good supper he did me invite [01:10.41]A cup of sour milk that was more green than white [01:15.21]And it gave me the threatened disorder [01:19.02]The wet oul potatoes would poison the cats [01:21.59]And the barn where me bed was with sworn with rats [01:26.03]The fleas would have frightened the fearless Saint Pat' [01:29.46]Who banished the snake o'er the border [01:33.44]He worked me by day and he worked me by night [01:36.77]While he held an old candle to give me some light [01:40.46]I wished these potatoes would die of the blight [01:43.98]Or himself would go off with the fairies [01:47.81]'TWas on this old miser I looked with a frown [01:51.27]When the straw was brought in for to make me shake down [01:54.92]And I wished that I'd never seen him nor his town [01:58.50]Nor the sky over Darby O'Leary [02:02.12]I've worked in Kilconnal I've worked in Kilmore [02:05.09]I've worked in Knockannie and Shanbalamore [02:06.65]And Pallas and Nigger and Salahatmore [02:08.99]With farmers so decent and cheery [02:12.49]I've worked in Tipperary the rag in Rossgreen [02:19.97]At the mount of Kilfacel the bridge of Aleen [02:24.08]Such woe-full starvation I never yet seen [02:26.40]As I got from ould Darby O'Leary"