Artist: | Malky (English) |
User: | Malky McDonald |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Default |
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Comment: | - |
Intro D G D A7 D G D A7
& after each verse
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In the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and six
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We set sail from the coal quay of Cork
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We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
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For the grand City Hall in New York
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We had an elegant craft, she was rigged fore and aft
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And how the trade winds drove her
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She had twenty-three masts and she stood several blasts
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And they called her the Irish Rover
There was Barny McGee from the banks of the Leith
There was Hogan from county Tyrone
There was Johnny McGirk, who was scared stiff of work
And a chap from Westmeath named Malone
There was Slugger O'Toole, who was drunk as a rule
And fighting Bill Tracy from Dover
And your man, Mick McCann, from the banks of the Bann
Was the skipper of the Irish Rover
We had one million bags of the best Sligo rags
We had two million barrels of bone
We had three million bales of old nanny goats' tails
We had four million barrels of stone
We had five million hogs and six million dogs
Seven million barrels of porter
We had eight million sides of old blind horses' hides
In the hold of the Irish Rover
We had sailed seven years when the measles broke out
And our the ship lost her way in the fog
And the whole of the crew was reduced down to two
'Twas meself and the captain's old dog
Then oh what a shock when the ship struck a rock
It nearly tumbled over
It turned nine times around and the poor old dog was drowned
I'm the last of the Irish Rover