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It was on an April morning just as the sun was rising It was on an April morning I heard the small birds sing They were singing lovely Nancy, for love it is a fancy, Sweet were the notes that I heard the small birds sing. O young men are false and they ever w...

I had a first cousin called Arthur McBride, He and I went a walkin' down by the seaside; In search of good fortune and what might betide, It was just as the day was a'dawnin'. After restin' we both took a tramp, We met Sergeant Harper and Corporal Cramp, Besi...

A long time ago, way back in history When all there was to drink was nothing but cups of tea Along came a man by the name of Charlie Mops And he invented a wonderful drink and he made it out of hops (R:) oh he ought to be an admiral, a sultan, or a king And t...

Come Irishmen both young and stern With adventure in your soul There are better ways to spend your days Than in working down a hole I was tall and true, all of 6 foot 2 But they broke me across the back By the name I'm known, but it's not my own They c...

Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side The summer's gone, and all roses falling 'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide. But come ye back when summer's in the meadow Or when the valley's hushed and whi...

Tim Finnegan lived in Watling Street A gentleman Irish, mighty odd; He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet And to rise in the world he carried a hod. Now Tim had a sort o' the tipplin' way With a love of the liquor poor Tim was born And to help him on with...

Lift MacCahir Og your face Brooding o’er the old disgrace That black FitzWilliam stormed your place, Drove you to the Fern Grey said victory was sure Soon the firebrand he’d secure; Until he met at Glenmalure With Feach MacHugh O’Byrne. Curse and swear Lord K...

Captain Taggart took the field With his men as hard as steel And we drove the bloody rebels to the sea Before the guns were stilled There were many hundreds killed There's many an Irish girl sad tonight When the smoke had cleared It was just as we had...

I'll tell me ma when I go home The boys won't leave the girls alone They pull my hair, they steal my comb But that's all right till I get home (R): She is handsome, she is pretty She is the belle of Belfast city She is courting one, two, three Please, won't y...

Up to mighty London Came an Irishman one day. As the streets are paved with gold Sure, everyone was gay, Singing songs of Piccadilly, Strand and Leicester Square, Till Paddy got excited, Then he shouted to them there: It's a long way to Tipperary, It's a long...

While goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo While goin' the road to sweet Athy A stick in me hand and a drop in me eye A doleful damsel I heard cry, Johnny I hardly knew ye. With your guns and drums and drums and guns, hurroo, hurroo With your gu...

Oh, me name is Mick Maguire and I'll quickly tell to you Of a young girl I admired called Kitty Donahue. She was fair and fat and forty and believe me when I say That whenever I came in at the door you could hear her mammy say. R: "Johnny get up from the fire...

In Dublin's fair city Where girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone, As she wheeled her wheelbarrow Through streets broad and narrow, Crying "Cockles and mussels! Alive, Alive Oh!" (R) "Alive, alive Oh! Alive, alive Oh!" Crying, "Cockle...

Well, if you've got a wing-o, Take her up to Ring-o Where the waxies sing-o all the day; If you've had your fill of porter, And you can't go any further Give your man the order: "Back to the Quay!" And take her up to Monto, Monto, Monto Take her up to Monto,...

n the days I went a courting, I was never tired of sporting To the alehouse and the playhouse and many's the house besides, So I told me brother Seamus I'd go off and go right famous And before I'd return again I'd roam the whole world wide. R: So goodbye, Mu...

As I went home on Monday night as drunk as drunk could be, I saw a horse outside the door where my old horse should be. Well, I called me wife and I said to her: "Will you kindly tell to me Who owns that horse outside the door where my old horse should be?"...

Well a Scottsman clad in kilt left a bar one evening fair And one could tell by how he walked he he drunk more than his share He fumbled 'round until he could no longer keep his feet And he stumbled off in to the grass to sleep beside the street Rin...

As I rode down through Galway Town To seek for recreation On the seventeenth of August Me mind being elevated There were multitudes assembled With their tickets at the station Me eyes began to dazzle And they're off to see the races R: With me whack fol the d...

At Oranmore in the County Galway, One pleasant evening in the month of May, I spied a damsel, she was young and handsome Her beauty fairly took my breath away. (R) She wore no jewels, nor costly diamonds, No paint or powder, no, none at all. But she wore a bo...

In the sweet county Lim'rick, one cold winter's night All the turf fires were burning when I first saw the light; And a drunken old midwife went tipsy with joy, As she danced round the floor with her slip of a boy, R: Singing bainne na mbó do na gamhna And th...

When Saint Patrick this order established, He called us the Monks of the Screw Good rules he revealed to our Abbot To guide us in what we should do; But first he replenished our fountain With liquor the best in the sky; And he said on the word of a Saint That...

In Newry Town I was bred and born In Stephen's Green, now I die in scorn I spent my time in the saddling trade But I turned out to be But I turned out to be a roving blade. At Seventeen I took a wife I loved her dearly as I loved my life And for to keep her b...

I'm bidding farewell to the land of my youth And the home that I love so well And the mountains grand of my own native land I'm bidding them all farewell With an aching heart I'll bid them adieu For tomorrow we sail far away O'er the raging foam, to seek a hom...

I'm on my way down to the quay Where the big ship at anchor lays To command a gang of navvys I was told to engage I thought I'd drop in for a drink Before I went away For to take a trip on an emigrant ship To the shores of Botany Bay R: Farewell to your brick...

Near Banbridge town, in the County Down One evening last July Down a bóithrín green came a sweet cailín And she smiled as she passed me by. She looked so sweet in her two bare feet To the sheen of her nut-brown hair Such a coaxing elf, I'd to shake myself To m...

1. Far across the stormy ocean in our happy Northern home, Where our country men are arming to resist the wiles of Rome, I can see the Union Cruiser in the harbour of Belfast, And the Orange flag of Liberty is floating on her mast. 2. Every city, town and vil...

I've been a wild rover for many's the year, and I spent all my money on whiskey and beer. And now I'm returning with gold in great store, and I never will play the wild rover no more. (R): And it's no, nay, never! No, nay, never, no more, will I play the wild...

As I was a-goin' over Gilgarra Mountain I spied Colonel Farrell, and his money he was countin'. First I drew my pistols and then I drew my rapier, Sayin' "Stand and deliver, for I am your bold receiver." Musha ringum duram da, Whack fol the daddy-o, There's w...