The Irish Rover-Dance To Tipperary

[ti:The Irish Rover] [ar:Dance To Tipperary] [al:"10 Years Of Irish Music Hits"] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Irish Rover - Dance To Tipperary [01:54.07]On the 4th of July eighteen hundred and six [01:57.36]We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork [02:00.13] [02:00.90]We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks [02:04.10] [02:04.68]For the grand city hall in New York [02:07.26] [02:08.08]To was a nearleaking craft she was rigged fore and aft [02:12.04]And oh how the wild wind drove her [02:15.29]She had several blasts she had 27 masts [02:18.97]And we called her the Irish Rover [02:23.06] [02:24.75]We had one million bags of the best Sligo rags [02:28.26]We had two million barrels of stones [02:31.51]We had three million sides of old blind horses hides [02:35.47]We had four million barrels of bones [02:38.90]We had five million hogs six million dogs [02:42.24] [02:42.91]Seven million barrels of porter [02:46.21]We had eight million bails of old nanny goats' tails [02:50.21]In the hold of the Irish Rover [02:53.58] [03:24.55]There was Barney McGee from the banks of the Lee [03:28.01]There was Hogan from County Tyrone [03:30.96] [03:31.63]There was Charlie McGurk who was scared stiff of work [03:35.37]And a chap from Westmeathe called Malone [03:38.07] [03:39.06]There was Slugger O'Toole who was drunk as a rule [03:42.79]And fighting Bill Tracy from Dover [03:46.18]And a man Mick McCann from the banks of the Bann [03:48.60]Was the skipper of the Irish Rover [03:53.77] [04:26.26]We had sailed seven years when the measles broke out [04:30.06]And the ship lost its way in the fog [04:32.79]And the whale of a crew was reduced down to two [04:37.01]Just myself and the Captain's old dog [04:39.26] [04:41.11]Then the ship struck a rock oh Lord what a shock [04:44.62]The bulkhead turned right over [04:47.83]Turned nine times around and the old dog was drowned [04:51.77] [04:52.50]And I'm the last of the Irish Rover