[ti:The Irish Rover] [ar:The Dubliners/The Pogues] [al:Festa di San Patrizio] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Irish Rover - The Dubliners/The Pogues [00:08.08]On the fourth of July eighteen hundred and six [00:11.31]We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork [00:14.63]We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks [00:18.35]For the grand city hall in New York [00:21.70]Twas a wonderful craft she was rigged fore and aft [00:25.12]And oh how the wild winds drove her [00:28.56]She'd got several blasts she'd twenty seven masts [00:31.84]And we called her the Irish Rover [00:36.24]We had one million bales of the best Sligo rags [00:39.58]We had two million barrels of stones [00:42.99]We had three million sides of old blind horses hides [00:46.42]We had four million barrels of bones [00:49.90]We had five million hogs six million dogs [00:53.59]Seven million barrels of porter [00:56.80]We had eight million bails of old nanny goats' tails [01:00.18]In the hold of the Irish Rover [01:04.45]There was awl Mickey Coote who played hard on his flute [01:07.75]When the ladies lined up for his set [01:11.26]He was tootin' with skill for each sparkling quadrille [01:14.59]Though the dancers were fluther'd and bet [01:18.13]With his sparse witty talk he was cock of the walk [01:21.39]As he rolled the dames under and over [01:24.77]They all knew at a glance when he took up his stance [01:28.23]And he sailed in the Irish Rover [02:00.79]There was Barney McGee from the banks of the Lee [02:04.13]There was Hogan from County Tyrone [02:07.37]There was Jimmy McGurk who was scarred stiff of work [02:10.86]And a man from Westmeath called Malone [02:14.27]There was slugger O'Toole who was drunk as a rule [02:17.86]And fighting Bill Tracey from Dover [02:21.13]And your man Mick McCann from the banks of the Bann [02:24.48]Was the skipper of the Irish Rover [02:29.04]For a sailor it's always a bother in life [02:32.22]It's so lonesome by night and by day [02:35.63]That he longs for the shore and a charming young whore [02:39.11]Who will melt all his troubles away [02:42.63]Oh the noise and the rout swillin' port in and stout [02:46.01]For him soon the torment's over [02:49.45]Of the love of a maid he is never afraid [02:52.95]An old salt from the Irish Rover [02:57.26]We had sailed seven years when the measles broke out [03:00.41]And the ship lost it's way in the fog [03:03.72]And that whale of a crew was reduced down to two [03:07.24]Just myself and the captain's old dog [03:10.67]Then the ship struck a rock [03:12.47]Oh Lord [03:13.06]What a shock [03:14.17]The bulkhead was turned right over [03:19.34]Turned nine times around and the poor old dog was drowned [03:27.60]I'm the last of the Irish Rover