Are Ye Right There Michael?-John Roche

[ti:Are Ye Right There Michael?] [ar:John Roche] [al:Songs of Percy French's Ireland] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Are Ye Right There Michael? - John Roche [00:00.75]Written by： Percy French [00:01.24] [00:06.89]You may talk of Columbus's sailing [00:09.60]Across the Atlantical Sea [00:11.76]But he never tried to go railing [00:13.84]From Ennis as far as Kilkee [00:16.36]You run for the train in the morning [00:18.53]The excursion train starting at eight [00:20.75]You're there when the clock gives the warnin' [00:23.19]And there for an hour you'll wait [00:25.81] [00:26.49]And as you're waiting in the train [00:29.98]You'll hear the guard sing this refrain [00:35.34] [00:35.91]Are ye right there Michael are ye right [00:39.08] [00:40.28]Do you think that we'll be there before the night [00:42.97] [00:44.25]Ye've been so long in startin' [00:46.20]That ye couldn't say for certain [00:48.03]Still ye might now Michael [00:49.76]So ye might [00:50.62] [00:52.27]They find out where the engine's been hiding [00:54.74]And it drags you to sweet Corofin [00:56.89]Says the guard [00:57.66]Back her down on the siding [00:59.36]There's a goods from Kilrush coming in [01:01.45] [01:02.08]Perhaps it comes in two hours [01:04.02] [01:04.54]Perhaps it breaks down on the way [01:06.61]If it does says the guard by the powers [01:09.18]We're here for the rest of the day [01:12.22]And while you sit and curse your luck [01:14.86] [01:15.44]The train backs down into a truck [01:20.25] [01:21.11]Are ye right there [01:22.83]Michael are ye right [01:24.39] [01:25.53]Have ye got the parcel there for Mrs White [01:28.18] [01:29.44]Ye haven't oh begorra [01:31.28]Say it's comin' down tomorra [01:33.14]And well it might now Michael [01:35.04]So it might [01:35.60] [01:37.34]At Lahinch the sea shines like a jewel [01:40.16]With joy you are ready to shout [01:41.91] [01:42.51]When the stoker cries out [01:43.52]There's no fuel [01:44.84]And the fire's tee-totally out [01:46.64] [01:47.28]But hand up that bit of a log there [01:49.43]I'll soon have ye out of the fix [01:51.54]There's fine clamp of turf in the bog there [01:53.74]And the rest go a-gatherin' sticks [01:56.02] [01:56.68]And while you're breakin' bits of trees [02:00.37]You hear some wise remarks like these [02:06.31]Are ye right there Michael [02:08.61]Are ye right [02:09.32] [02:10.33]Do ye think that you can get the fire to light [02:13.09] [02:14.17]Oh an hour you'll require [02:15.87]For the turf it might be drier [02:17.90]Well it might now Michael [02:19.58]So it might [02:20.47] [02:22.33]Kilkee [02:22.56] [02:23.29]Oh you never get near it [02:25.06]You're in luck if the train brings you back [02:27.38]For the permanent way is so queer [02:29.89]It spends most of its time off the track [02:31.90] [02:32.72]Uphill the old engine is climbin' [02:35.20]While the passengers push with a will [02:37.27]You're in luck when you reach Ennistymon [02:40.07]For all the way home is downhill [02:45.10]And as you're wobblin' through the dark [02:48.81]you hear the guard make this remark [02:55.31]Are you right there Michael are ye right [02:58.40] [02:59.51]Do you think that we'll be home before it's light [03:02.25] [03:03.75]Tis all dependin' whether [03:05.53]The old engine holds together [03:07.39]And it might now Michael so it might [03:13.26]