The Irish Rover

[ti:The Irish Rover] [ar:The Hit Crew] [al:Drew's Famous - St. Patrick's Day Party Music] [offset:0] [00:00.42]The Irish Rover - The Hit Crew [00:04.47]In the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and six [00:08.35]We set out from the coal quay of Cork [00:11.43] [00:12.63]We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks [00:16.42]For the grand City Hall in New York [00:19.69] [00:20.93]We'd an elegant craft, she was rigged 'fore and aft [00:24.78] [00:25.42]And how the Trade Winds drove her [00:29.14]She had twenty three masts and she stood several blasts [00:33.19]And they called her the Irish Rover [00:36.96] [00:40.65]There was Barney Magee from the banks of the Lee [00:44.77]There was Hogan from County Tyrone [00:47.50] [00:48.77]There was Johnny McGurk, who was scared stiff of work [00:52.99]And a chap from Westmeath named Mallone [00:55.79] [00:57.39]There was Slugger O'Toole, who was drunk as a rule [01:01.58]And fighting Bill Tracey from Dover [01:04.64] [01:05.48]And your man, Mick McCann, from the banks of the Bann [01:09.54]Was the skipper on the Irish Rover [01:13.00] [01:16.83]We had one million bags of the best Sligo rags [01:20.63]We had two million barrels of bone [01:23.91] [01:25.04]We had three million bales of old nanny goat tails [01:29.24]We had four million barrels of stone [01:31.94] [01:33.75]Five million hogs, six million dogs [01:37.15] [01:37.68]And Seven million barrels of porter [01:40.97] [01:41.60]We had eight million sides of old blind horses' hides [01:45.79]In the hold of the Irish Rover [01:50.34] [02:29.13]We had sailed seven years when the measles broke out [02:32.89]And the ship lost her way in the fog [02:36.22] [02:37.45]And the whole of the crew was reduced down to two [02:41.51]Twas meself and the captain's old dog [02:44.57] [02:45.73]Then the ship struck a rock, Oh, what a shock [02:49.50] [02:50.09]And the bulkhead was turned right over [02:53.66] [02:56.37]She turned nine times around [02:58.87] [02:59.56]And the poor old dog was drowned [03:02.84] [03:04.04]I'm the last of The Irish Rover [03:09.74]