The Irish Rover-Trad.

[ti:The Irish Rover] [ar:Trad.] [al:Kilkenny's Best: Pubsongs From Ireland] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Irish Rover - Trad. [00:15.77]In the year of our lord eighteen hundred and six [00:19.45]We set sail from the cove of Cork [00:23.38]We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks [00:27.38]For the grand city hall in New York [00:30.90]We'd a nearleaking craft she was rigged fore and aft [00:34.65] [00:35.44]And how the trade winds drove her [00:38.82]She had twenty-three masts and she stood several blasts [00:42.63]And they called her the irish rover [00:47.84] [01:01.54]There was bobby mcgee from the banks of the lee [01:05.25]There was hogan from county tyrone [01:08.79]There was johnny mcgurk who was scared stiff of work [01:13.51]a chap from Westmeathe called Malone [01:16.02] [01:16.59]There was Slugger o'toole who was drunk as a rule [01:21.06]fighting bill tracy from dover [01:23.87] [01:24.49]And a man mick mccann from the banks of the bann [01:28.23]Was the skipper of the irish rover [01:32.05] [02:17.66]We had one million bags of the best sligo rags [02:21.41]We had two million barrels of bone [02:24.98]We had three million bales of old nanny goats tails [02:28.65] [02:29.26]We had four million barrels of stone [02:32.64]We had five million dogs [02:35.11]six million hogs [02:36.97]Seven million barrels of porter [02:39.96] [02:40.78]We had eight million sides of blind horses hides [02:44.56]In the hold of the irish rover [02:47.54] [03:03.27]We had sailed seven years when the mizzens broke out [03:07.27]And the ship lost her way in the fog [03:10.94]And the whale of a crew was reduced down to two [03:14.76]T'was meself and the captain's old dog [03:18.31]when the ship struck a rock and lord what a shock [03:22.44]she nearly tumbled over [03:26.20]Turned nine times around and the poor old dog was drowned [03:34.18]I'm the last of the irish rover