Irish Rover-Shannon Singers

[ti:Irish Rover] [ar:Shannon Singers] [al:40 Irish Folk Ballads] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Irish Rover - Shannon Singers [00:08.38]In the year of our Lord [00:10.41]Eighteen hundred and six [00:12.37]We set sail from the Coal Quay of Cork [00:16.28]We were sailing away with [00:18.43]A cargo of bricks [00:20.24]For the grand City Hall in New York [00:24.28]We'd an elegant craft [00:26.32]It was rigged 'fore and aft [00:28.49]And oh how the wild wind drove her [00:32.16]She stood several blasts [00:34.30]She had twenty-three masts [00:36.29]And they called her the Irish Rover [00:40.35]We had one million bags [00:42.23]Of the best Sligo rags [00:44.22]We had two million barrells of bone [00:48.19]We had three million bales [00:50.20]Of old nanny goats' tails [00:52.23]We had four million barrells of stone [00:56.26]We had five million hogs [00:58.52]And six million dogs [01:00.56]And seven million barrells of porter [01:04.32]We had eight million sides [01:06.27]Of old blind horses' hides [01:08.45]In the hold of the Irish Rover [01:20.50]There was Barney Magee from [01:22.54]The banks of the Lee [01:24.34]There was Hogan from County Tyrone [01:28.26]There was Johnny McGurk [01:30.34]Who was scared stiff of work [01:32.29]And a chap from Westmeath named Malone [01:36.25]There was Slugger O'Toole [01:38.58]Who was drunk as a rule [01:40.40]And fighting Bill Tracy from Dover [01:44.37]And your man Mick McCann [01:46.26]From the banks of the Bann [01:48.23]Was the skipper on the Irish Rover [01:52.32]We had sailed seven years [01:54.18]When the measles broke out [01:56.25]And our ship lost her way in a fog [02:00.28]And the whole of the crew [02:02.28]Was reduced down to two [02:04.26]'Twas myself and the captain's old dog [02:08.21]Then the ship struck a rock [02:10.66]Oh Lord what a shock [02:12.56]And nearly tumbled over [02:16.69]Turned nine times around [02:19.23]Then the poor old dog was drowned [02:23.29]I'm the last of the Irish Rover