The Irish Rover-Ronnie Drew/Davey Arthur

[ti:The Irish Rover] [ar:Ronnie Drew/Davey Arthur] [al:Songs of Irish Emigration] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Irish Rover - Ronnie Drew/Davey Arthur [00:12.29]On the fourth of July eighteen hundred and six [00:15.74]We set sail from the sweet cove of cork [00:18.14] [00:19.08]We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks [00:22.63]For the grand city hall in New York [00:25.10] [00:25.93]Towns a wonderful craft she was rigged fore-and-aft [00:29.36]And oh how the wild winds drove her [00:32.84]She'd got several blasts she'd twenty-seven masts [00:36.25]And we called her the Irish rover [00:39.61] [00:40.52]We had one million bales of the best sligo rags [00:43.97]We had two million barrels of stones [00:47.50]We had three million sides of old blind horses hides [00:50.86]We had four million barrels of bones [00:53.56] [00:54.16]We had five million hogs six million dogs [00:57.85]Seven million barrels of porter [01:01.04]We had eight million bails of old nanny goats' tails [01:04.54]In the hold of the Irish rover [01:07.73] [01:08.65]There was awl mickey cootie who played hard on his flute [01:12.10]When the ladies lined up for his set [01:14.48] [01:15.41]He was tooting with skill for each sparkling quadrille [01:19.09]Though the dancers were flutter and bet [01:21.35] [01:22.46]With his sparse witty talk he was cock of the walk [01:25.84]As he rolled the dames under and over [01:29.15]They all knew at a glance when he took up his stance [01:32.74]And he sailed in the Irish rover [01:36.21] [02:05.02]There was barney McGee from the banks of the lee [02:08.63]There was hogan from county Tyrone [02:11.81]There was jimmy McGuire who was scarred stiff of work [02:15.35]And a man from west-neath called me alone [02:18.01] [02:18.63]There was slugger O'Toole who was drunk as a rule [02:22.25]And fighting bill Tracey from Dover [02:25.40]And your man mick McCain from the banks of the bane [02:28.99]Was the skipper of the Irish rover [02:32.44] [03:01.45]We had sailed seven years when the measles broke out [03:04.84]And the ship lost it's way in a fog [03:07.46] [03:08.14]And that whale of the crew was reduced down to two [03:11.64]Just myself and the captain's old dog [03:14.28] [03:15.01]Then the ship struck a rock oh lord what a shock [03:18.47]The bulkhead was turned right over [03:22.99] [03:23.51]Turned nine times around and the poor dog was drowned [03:29.94] [03:31.87]I'm the last of the Irish rover