Darby O'Leary (2012 - Remaster)-The Dubliners

[ti:Darby O'Leary] [ar:The Dubliners] [al:At It Again! (2012 - Remaster) (2012 - Remaster)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Darby O'Leary (2012 - Remaster) - The Dubliners [00:06.73]"One evening of latest as I happened to stray [00:09.78]To the county Tipperary I straightened me way [00:13.41]To dig for potatoes and work by the day [00:16.90]For a farmer called Darby O'Leary [00:20.63]I asked him how far we where bound for to go [00:24.18]The night being dark and a cold wind did blow [00:27.86]I was hungry and tired and me spirits where low [00:31.42]For I got neither whiskey nor water [00:35.11]The dirty ould miser he mounted his stead [00:38.89]To the Gull Belly mountains he road in great speed [00:42.51]I followed behind till my poor feet did bleed [00:46.01]When we stopped when his old horse was weary [00:49.68]When we came to his cottage I entered it first [00:53.32]It seems like a kennel or ruined old church [00:56.91]Says I to myself I am left in the lurch [01:00.50]In the house of old Darby O'Leary [01:04.16]I well recollected was mickle must night [01:07.82]To a hearty good supper he did me invite [01:11.36]A cup of sour milk that was more green than white [01:14.98]And it gave me the threatened disorder [01:18.25] [01:18.80]The wet oul potatoes would poison the cats [01:22.08]And the barn where me bed was with sworn with rats [01:25.79]The fleas would have frightened the fearless Saint Pat' [01:29.37]Who banished the snake o'er the border [01:33.11]He worked me by day and he worked me by night [01:36.71]While he held an old candle to give me some light [01:40.26]I wished these potatoes would die of the blight [01:43.78]Or himself would go off with the fairies [01:47.63]'TWas on this old miser I looked with a frown [01:51.04]When the straw was brought in for to make me shake down [01:54.60]And I wished that I'd never seen him nor his town [01:58.26]Nor the sky over Darby O'Leary [02:02.08]I've worked in Kilconnal I've worked in Kilmore [02:05.76]I've worked in Knockannie and Shanbalamore [02:09.32]And Pallas and Nigger and Salahatmore [02:13.00]With farmers so decent and cheery [02:16.41]I've worked in Tipperary the rag in Rossgreen [02:20.24]At the mount of Kilfacel the bridge of Aleen [02:23.79]Such woe-full starvation I never yet seen [02:27.41]As I got from ould Darby O'Leary"