The Irish Rover-The Clancy Brothers

[ti:The Irish Rover] [ar:The Clancy Brothers] [al:Vanguard Visionaries] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Irish Rover - The Clancy Brothers [00:04.70]In the year of our lord eighteen hundred and six [00:08.39]We set sail from the port quay of cork [00:11.39] [00:12.06]We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks [00:15.69]For the grand city hall of new york [00:19.31]We'd a nearleaking craft it was rigged fore and aft [00:23.13]And how the trade winds drove her [00:26.81]She had twenty-three masts and she stood several blasts [00:30.25]And they called her the irish rover [00:35.13]There was bobby mcgee from the banks of the leith [00:38.63]There was hogan from county tyrone [00:42.00]There was john d mcgirk who was scared stiff of work [00:45.75]And a chap from westmeath named malone [00:49.13]There was Slugger o'toole who was drunk as a rule [00:53.00]And fighting bill tracy from dover [00:56.56]And a man mick mccann from the banks of the bann [01:00.13]Was the skipper of the irish rover [01:04.50]We had one million bags of the best sligo rags [01:08.13]We had two million barrels of pone [01:11.57]We had three million bales of old nanny goats tails [01:15.52]We had four million barrels of stone [01:18.89]We had five million hogs [01:20.77]And six million dogs [01:22.77]Seven million barrels of porter [01:26.20]We had eight million sides of poor blind horses hides [01:29.77]In the hold of the irish rover [01:34.46]We had sailed seven years when the mizzens broke out [01:37.89]And the ship lost her way in the fog [01:41.77]And that whale of a crew was reduced down to two [01:45.05]Twas meself and the captain's old dog [01:48.80]Well the ship struck a rock and lord what a shock [01:52.30]I nearly tumbled over [01:55.91]Turned nine times around and the poor old dog was drowned [02:05.47]I'm the last of the irish rover [02:11.41]