[00:00.00]Irish Rover (Remastered 2019) - The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
[00:04.70]In the year of our lord eighteen hundred and six
[00:08.39]We set sail from the port quay of cork
[00:12.06]We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
[00:15.69]For the grand city hall of new york
[00:19.31]We'd a nearleaking craft it was rigged fore and aft
[00:23.13]And how the trade winds drove her
[00:26.81]She had twenty-three masts and she stood several blasts
[00:30.25]And they called her the irish rover
[00:35.13]There was bobby mcgee from the banks of the leith
[00:38.63]There was hogan from county tyrone
[00:42.00]There was john d mcgirk who was scared stiff of work
[00:45.75]And a chap from westmeath named malone
[00:49.13]There was Slugger o'toole who was drunk as a rule
[00:53.00]And fighting bill tracy from dover
[00:56.56]And a man mick mccann from the banks of the bann
[01:00.13]Was the skipper of the irish rover
[01:04.50]We had one million bags of the best sligo rags
[01:08.13]We had two million barrels of pone
[01:11.57]We had three million bales of old nanny goats tails
[01:15.52]We had four million barrels of stone
[01:18.89]We had five million hogs
[01:20.77]And six million dogs
[01:22.77]Seven million barrels of porter
[01:26.20]We had eight million sides of poor blind horses hides
[01:29.77]In the hold of the irish rover
[01:34.46]We had sailed seven years when the mizzens broke out
[01:37.89]And the ship lost her way in the fog
[01:41.77]And that whale of a crew was reduced down to two
[01:45.05]Twas meself and the captain's old dog
[01:48.80]Well the ship struck a rock and lord what a shock
[01:52.30]I nearly tumbled over
[01:55.91]Turned nine times around and the poor old dog was drowned
[02:05.47]I'm the last of the irish rover
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