The Dubliners

With our nets and gear we're faring On the wild and wasteful ocean. It`s out there on the deep we harvest and reap our bread As we hunt the bonny shoals of herring O it was a fine and a pleasant day Out of Yarmouth harbour I was faring As a cabin boy on a sai...

A sober black shawl hides her body entirely Touched by the sun and the salt spray of the sea But down in the darkness a slim hand so lovely Carries a rich bunch of red roses for me Her petticoat simple and her feet are but bare And all that she has is but nea...

When boyhood's fire was in my blood I read of ancient freemen Of Greece and Rome who bravely stood Three hundred men and three men And then I prayed I yet might see Our fetters rent in twain And Ireland long a province be a nation once again A nation on...

It's lonesome away from your kindred and all, By the campfire at night where the wild dingos call, But there's nothing so lonesome, so dull or so drear, Than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer. Now the publican's anxious for the quota to come, The...

There's lilt in the song I sing, there's laughter and love There's tang o' the sea, and blue from heaven above Of reason there's none, and why should there be forbye With fire in the blood, and toes and light in the eye Air fa la la lo horo air fa la la lay A...

In Alabama 1958 The cost of human life is very low A man that's black is trampled down Just like they were a thousand years ago But these are more enlightened days No room for all these savage ways Leave and let them go Now every man may walk his road in peac...

I'm sick in the head and I haven't been to bed Since first I came ashore with me plunder I've seen centipedes and snakes And my head is full off aches And I'll have to make a path for way out yonder And it's all for me grog, me jolly jolly grog All for...

When I was a young man I carried me pack And I lived the free life of the rover. From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback, I waltzed my Matilda all over. Then in 1915, me country said, "Son, It's time you stop ramblin', there's work to be done." So...

Oh, have you been to Avondale And lingered in her lovely vale? Where tall trees whisper low the tale Of Avondale's proud eagle. Where pride and ancient glory fade, Such was the land where he was laid, Like Christ was thirty pieces paid, For Avondale's proud...

I'm a poor man as honest as they come I never was a thief until they caught me The judge said he swore me hands were red No matter how I'd pled he found me guilty There was no bail, I'm of to Durham Gaol I'm going and nothing now can save me Calamities they al...

He was stranded in some tiny town On fair Princes Isle Awaiting for a ship to come and find him A one horse place a friendly face Some coffee and a tiny trace Of fiddlin in the distant far behind him A dime across the counter then A shy hello a brand new frie...

On the Banks of the Roses me love and I sat down And I took out me fiddle for to play me love a tune And in the middle of the tune-o she sighed and she said Oro Johnny, lovely Johnny don't ya leave me When I was a young boy I heard me father say Tha...

Oh, who will plough the fields now And who will sow the corn And who will watch the sheep now And keep them from all harm And the stack that's in the haggard Unthreshed it may remain Since Johnny, lovely Johnny Went to fight the king of Spain Oh, the girls o...

You may travel from Clare to County Kildare, From Dublin right down to Macroom. But where would you see a fine widow like me Biddy Mulligan, the pride of the Coombe I'm a scrap of a widow that lives in a place, In Dublin that`s known as the Coombe. And me com...

In a neat little town they call Belfast, apprentice to trade I was bound Many an hours sweet happiness, have I spent in that neat little town A sad misfortune came over me, which caused me to stray from the land Far away from me friends and relations, betrayed...

Well, here I am from Paddy's land, a land of high renown I've broke the hearts of all the girls for miles round Keady town And when they hear that I'm awa' they'll raise a hullabaloo When they hear about that handsome lad they call Jack Donahue! cho: For I'm...

Down in Bombo Lane There lives a big fat woman And if you want to know her name You have to pay a shilling Soldiers, two and six, Sailors, two and a penny, Big fat men tw opounds ten Little kids a penny 

Oh, I'm sailin' away my own true love, I'm sailin' away in the morning. Is there something I can send you from across the sea, From the place that I'll be landing? No, there's nothin' you can send me, my own true love, There's nothin' I'm wishin' to be ownin'...

A Boolavogue as the sun was setting,O'er the bright May meadow of Shelmalier,, A reble hand set the heather blazing,and brought the neighbours from far and near, The Father Murphy from old Kilcormack spurred up the rock like a warning cry, Arm,arm he cried,for...

Oh, I won a hero's name with McAlpine and Costain With Fitz Patrick, Murph Ash and the Wimp's gang I've been often on the road on me way to draw the dole When there's nothing left to do for Johnny Laing And I used to think that God made the mixer, pick and hod...

Oh were I at the moss house, where the birds do increase, At the foot of Mount Leinster or some silent place, By the streams of Bunclody where all pleasures do meet, And all I would ask is one kiss from you, sweet. The streams of Bunclody they flow down so f...

I am the man, the well-fed man in charge of the terrible knob. The most pleasing thing about it, it's almost a permanent job. When the atom war is over and the world is split in three A consolation I've got, well maybe it's not, there'll be nobody left but me....

I wish I was in Carrickfergus Only for nights in Ballygrand I would swim over the deepest ocean Only for nights in Ballygrand But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over And neither have I the wings to fly I wish I had a handsome boatsman To ferry me ove...

As I walk the road from Killeshandra weary I sit down For it's twelve long miles around the lake to get to Cavan Town Though Oughter and the road I go once seemed beyond compare Now I curse the time it takes to reach my Cavan girl so fair The autumn shades ar...

I am a old timer I travel the road I sit in my waggon and lumber me load The hotel me jungle me camp me abode I’m well known to Blondie and Mary. me liquor is diesel oil laced with strong tea The old Highway Code was me first ABC, I cut me eyeteeth fomr an old...

Cad a dhéanfaimid feasta gan adhmad? Tá deireadh na gcoillte ar lár Níl trácht ar Chill Chais ná a teaghlach 'S ní chluinfear a cling go brách An áit úd 'na gcónaíodh an dei-bhean Fuair gradam is meidhir thar mnáibh Bhíodh iarlaí ag tarraingt thar toinn ann 'S...

I'm a young married man and I'm tired of me life For lately I married an ailing young wife, She does nothing all day, only sits down and sigh Saying I wish to the lord that I only could die. Oh doctor, dear doctor, oh doctor De'Jung Your cod liver oil is so...

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 a name I'm known and it's not my own For they call me...

Who is that there that's rapping the door to me Who is that there that's rapping the door to me Who is that there that's rapping the door to me Only meself says Cúnla Cúnla dear don't come any nearer me Cúnla dear don't come any nearer me Cúnla dear don't com...

It was in and through the window broads And a' the tirlie wirlies o't The sweetest kiss that e'er i got Was from my dainty davie Oh leeze me on your curly pow Dainty davie dainty davie Leeze me on your curly pow My ain dear dainty davie It was doon amang my...

It's fifty long springtimes since she was a bride, But still you may see her at each Whitsuntide In a dress of white linen with ribbons of green, As green as her memories of loving. The feet that were nimble tread carefully now, As gentle a measure as age wil...

I knew Danny Farrell when his football was a can. In his hand me down's and wellers and sandwiches of grand, But now this pave ment pesent,is a full grown bitter man, With all his trials and troubles,of hes travelling people's clan He's a looser a boozer,me a...

One evening of latest as I happened to stray To the county Tipperary I straightened me way To dig for potatoes and work by the day For a farmer called Darby O'Leary I asked him how far we where bound for to go The night being dark and a cold wind did blow I w...

The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning, The oranges piled in their creosote dumps; They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border To pay all their money to wade back again Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita, Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria; You...

Oh poor old Dicey Reilly she has taken to the sup. Oh poor old Dicey Reilly she will never give it up. For it`s off each morning to the pop, And then she`s in for another little drop, For the heart of the rowl is Dicey Reilly. Oh she walks along Fitzgibbon st...

I met my love by the gas works wall Dreamed a dream by the old canal I kissed my girl by the factory wall Dirty old town Dirty old town Clouds are drifting across the moon Cats are prowling on their beat Spring's a girl from the streets at night Dirty...

Don't get married girls You'll sign away your life You may start off as a woman But you'll end up as the wife You could be a vestal virgin Take the veil and be a nun But don't get married girls For marriage isn't fun Oh it's fine when you're romancing And he...

Don't give up till it's over, don't quit if you can The weight on your shoulder will make you a stronger man Grasp your nettle tightly, though it will burn Treat your failures lightly, your luck is bound to turn Don't give up till it's over, don't quit if yo...

I remember the night that he came in From the wintry cold and damp A giant of a man in an oilskin coat and a bundle that told he was a tramp He stood at the bar and he called a pint Then turned and gazed at the fire On a night like this, to be safe and dry Is...

'Twas down by the Glenside I met an old woman A plucking young nettles she ne'er saw me coming I listened a while to the song she was humming Glory o glory o to the Bold Fenian Men It`s fifty long years since I saw the moon beamin' On strong manly force, thei...

At the pub at the crossroads there's whiskey and beer There's brandy, strong cognac that's aging for years But for killing the thirst and for easing the gout There's nothing at all beats a pint of good stout Drink it up men it's long after ten At the pub on t...

Oh, poor old Admiral Nelson is no longer in the air. Toora loora loora loora loo! On the eighth day of March in Dublin City fair, Toora loora loora loora loo! From his stand of stones and mortar He fell crashing through the quarter, Where once he stood so stif...

Well you've heard about the Indians with their tommyhawks and spears And of the U.N. warriors the heroes of recent years Also I might mention the British Grenadiers Well none of them were in it but the Dublin Fusiliers. You've heard about the Light Brigade and...

Ring a ring a rosie as the lights declines, I remember Dublin city in the rare oul times. Raised on songs and stories, heroes of renown, The passing tales and glories, that once was Dublin town, The hallowed halls and houses, the haunting children's rhymes...

Eileen Og and that the darling's name is. And through the Barony her features the were famous, If we loved her then who was there to blame us, For wasn't she the pride of Petravore. But her beauty made us all look so shy, Not a man could look her in the eye Bo...

When I was young and in my prime And could wander wild and free There was always a longing in my mind To follow the call of the sea So, I'll sing farewell to Carlingford And farewell to Greenore And I'll think of you both day and night Until I return o...

As I roved by the dockside one evening so fair To view the salt waters and take in the salt air I heard an old fisherman singing a song Oh, take me away boys me time is not long Wrap me up in me oilskin and blankets No more on the docks I'll be seen Just tell...

Ah Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin Street A gentleman Irish mighty odd Well, he had a tongue both rich and sweet An' to rise in the world he carried a hod Ah but Tim had a sort of a tipplin' way With the love of the liquor he was born An' to send him on his way e...

For What Died the Sons of Róisín, was it fame? For What Died the Sons of Róisín, was it fame? For what flowed Irelands blood in rivers, That began when Brian chased the Dane, And did not cease nor has not ceased, With the brave sons of ´16, For what died the s...

'What did I have', said the fine old woman. 'What did I have', this proud old woman did say. 'I had four green fields, each one was a jewel. But strangers came and tried to take them from me. But my fine strong sons They fought to save my jewels. They...

Laws were made for people And the law can never scorn The right of a man to be free Free the people! Let them have their say Free the people! Let them see the light of day A dismal dawn was breaking when they took her man away Not knowing what was his crime...

Rock the wind in the clear day's dawning Blows the cloud's heels for gaudie o'er the bay But there's mair nor a rough wind blowing Through the great glen o' the world a'day It's a thought that will garrow rottens 'thae rogues that ken Gallar's fresh and gay Ta...

Further along we'll know all about it Further along we'll understand why Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine We'll understand it all, by and by Tempted and tried, we're oft made to wonder Why it should be thus all our days long While there are oth...

As I roved out 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 My eyes began to dazzle and they going to see the race To me whack-fa-the-do-fa the...

Well it's of a gentleman soldier as a sentry he did stand. He saluted the fair maid by a waving of his hand. So boldly then he kissed her and he passed it off as a joke. He drilled her up in the sentry-box wrapped up in a soldier's cloak. And the drums they go...

In Glendalough lived an old saint Renowned for learning and piety His manners was curious and quint And he looked upon girl with disparity fol di dol fol di fol day fol di dol rol di dol ad dy fol di dol rol di dol day fol di dol rol di dol ad dy He was fon...

When first I landed in Liverpool, I went upon a spree Me money alas I spent it fast, got drunk as drunk could be And when that me money was all gone, 'twas then I wanted more But a man must be blind to make up his mind to go to sea once more Once more, boys,...

Refren: God save Ireland, said the heroes God save Ireland, said they all Whether on the scaffold high Or the battlefield we die Oh what matter when for Erin dear we fall? High upon the gallows tree Swung the noble hearted three By the vengeful tyrant...

As we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham jail, I think about these past few weeks, oh, will they say we've failed? From our school days, they have told us we must yearn for liberty, Yet, all I want in this dark place is to have you here with me. Oh,...

Twas in eighteen hundred and fifty-three And of June the thirteenth day, That our gallant ship her anchor weighed, And for greenland bore away, brave boys, And for greenland bore away. The lookout in the crosstrees stood With spyglass in his hand; There's a w...

A gypsy rover came over the hill Down through the valley so shady. He whistled and he sang 'til the green woods rang And he won the heart of a lady. Ah-dee-doo-ah-dee-doo-dah-day Ah-dee-doo-ah-dee-day-dee He whistled and he sang 'til the green woods rang...

Oh-o glory-o now I'm the Lord's desiple Oh-o glory-o now hand me down my bible I like my liquor and my livin' hard May the Lord save my soul My salvation was the turn of a card My heart's as black as coal But everybody's got the right to go wrong Everybody's g...

Hey, Johnny McGory Tell me where's your glory gone I saw you up in the Monto With your old leg gone A dirty Flanders bullet Sure it left you half a man Hey, Johnny McGory Where's your old leg gone Up the Sally Gardens Around the back of the pipes Messing wit...

Oh Polly, love, oh Polly, the rout has now begun And we must go a-marching at the beating of the drum Go dress yourself all in your best and come along with me I'll take you to the war, me love, in high Germany Oh Willy, love, oh Willy, come list what I do sa...

Oh well, who wouldn't be a sailor lad a 'Sailin' on the main To gain the goodwill of his captain's good name He came ashore one evening for to be And that was the beginning of my own true love and me And its home, boys home Home I'd like to be, home for...

Good evening all me jolly lads I'm glad to see you're well If you'll gather all around me now the story I will tell For I've got a situation and begorah and begob I can whisper I've the weekly wage of nineteen bob 'Tis tvelwe months come October since I left m...

Have you heard o' one Humpty Dumpty? How he fell with a roll and a rumble Crawled up like lord Oliver Crumble As the boot of the magazine wall The magazine wall, hump helmet and all He was one time our king of the castle Now he's kicked about like a rotten ol...

I knew Danny Farrell when his football was a can With his hand-me-downs and Welliers and his sandwiches of bran But now that pavement peasant is a full grown bitter man With all the trials and troubles of his travelling people's clan He's a loser, a boozer, a...

I know my love by his way of walking And I know my love by his way of talking And I know my love dressed in a suit of blue And if my love leaves me what will I do? refren: And still she cried 'I love him the best' And a troubled mind sure can know no rest And...

I loved the ground she walked upon And the air she would softly breathe The feather touch of her gentle lips That only a fool would leave That only a fool would leave But we tasted forbidden wine Though I loved the ground she walked upon I could never h...

I wish I had someone to love me, Someone to call me their own, Someone to stay with me al- ways, I'm weary of being alone. Meet me tonight in the moon- light, Meet me tonight all alone; I have a sad story to tell you, I'll tell by the light of the moon. I wis...

I wish I was back in Liverpool, Liverpool town where I was born Where there ain't no trees, no scent of grease, no field's of waving corn But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls and the black and tan flows free There's six in a bed by the old pier head a...

She is handsome, she is pretty She is the belle of Dublin city She is a-courting one, two, three Pray, can you tell me who is she? Albert Mooney says he loves her All the boys are fightin' for her Knock at the door, they're ringin' the bell "Hello, my...

I am a freeborn man of the traveling people Got no fixed abode, with nomads I am numbered Country lanes and byways were always my ways Never fancied being lumbered O we knew the woods, all the resting places And the small birds sang when wintertime was over T...

Oh me name is Jock Stewart I'm a canny gang man And a rovin' young fellow I've been So be easy and free When you're drinkin' with me I'm a man you don't meet every day I'm a piper by trade I'm a ramblin' young blade And 'tis many the tune I can play So be e...

As sung on the following albums: Seven Drunken Nights; The Best of The Dubliners There`s ne`er a nicht I`m gane to ramble, there`s ne`er a nicht I`m gane to roam There`s ne`er a nicht I`m gane to ramble, intae the erms of me ain true love I'm a rover, seld...

I'm lying in bed I'm in room twenty-six Thinking on things that I've done Like drinking with squaddies and bulling my boots I'm counting the medals I've won These Hospital wards there all (draft) looking joints (drab)? But the sealing is much as I seen It ca d...

In Dublin City in nineteen thirteen The boss was rich and the poor were slaves The women working and children starving Then on came Larkin like a mighty wave The workers cringed when the boss man thundered Seventy hours was his weekly chore He asked for little...

Toora loora loora la, toora loora loora la Toora loora loora la, give the child a jar of porter Toora loora loora la, toora loora loora la Sing toora loora loora la, give the child a jar of porter If you want your child to grow, your child to grow, your...

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, alive as you and me Says I, 'But Joe, you're ten years dead' 'I never died', says he 'I never died', says he 'In Salt-Lake city, Joe', says I, him standing by my side 'They framed you on a murder charge' Says Joe: 'I never...

Hey, Johnny McGory, tell me, where's your glory gone I saw you up in the monto with your old leg gone A dirty Flanders bullets, sure it left you half a man Hey, Johnny McGory, where's your old leg gone Up to Sally gardens, around the back of the pipes Messing...

'Twas down by Brannigan's Corner, one morning I did stray I met a fellow rebel, and to me he did say "We've orders from the captain to assemble at Dunbar But how are we to get there, without a motor car?" "Oh, Barney dear, be of good cheer, I'll tell you what...

'Twas down by Brannigan's Corner, one morning I did stray I met a fellow rebel, and to me he did say "We've orders from the captain to assemble at Dunbar But how are we to get there, without a motor car?" "Oh, Barney dear, be of good cheer, I'll tell you...

When I was young, I used to be, As fine a man as ever you'd see, 'til the Prince of Wales, he said to me, Come and join the British army. Too-ra loo-ra loo-ra loo, They're lookin' for monkeys up in the zoo, And since when have I had a face like you? I'd join...

What's the news, what's the news Oh, my bold Shelmalier With your long barrelled gun of the sea Say what winds from the south Blows your messenger here With his hymn of the dawn for the free Goodly news, goodly news, do I bring youth of Forth Goodly news, shal...

There was an ould man down by Killiburn Brae - Riful, riful, tidi foldey There was an ould man down by Killiburn Brae Had a curse of a wife for most of his days Chorus: With me riful doldol, tidi folol Fola doldol da dolda doldey One day as this man he walked...

In the town of Athy one Jeremy Lannigan, Battered away 'til he hadn't a pound His father he died and made him a man again, Left him a farm and ten acres of ground He gave a grand party to friends and relations Who didn't forget him when come to the wall And if...

In comes the train and the whole platform shakes It stops with a shudder and a screaming of brakes The parting has come and my weary soul aches I'm leaving my Nancy, oh But you stand there so calmly determinedly gay You talk of the weather and events of the d...

I am a young fellow that's easy and bold, In Castletown conners I'm very well known. In Newcastle West I spent many a note, With Kitty and Judy and Mary. My parents rebuked me for being such a rake, And for spending my time in such frolicsome ways, I ne'er cou...

Oh Liverpool Lou, lovely Liverpool Lou Why don't you behave, love, like the other girls do? Why must my poor heart be following you Stay home and love me, my Liverpool Lou When I go a-walking, I hear people talking Schoolchildren playing, I know what the...

Hold on to your women and lock’em away Or we’ll chase’em and catch’em and love’em From friday to sunday. Where girls are goodlookin’, were lookin’ forfun Oh, we’ll chase’em and catch’em and love’em So lock up the last one. They’ll sigh and they’ll shiver, th...

I danced in the morning when the world was young I danced in the moon, and the stars, and the sun I came down from Heaven and I danced on the Earth At Bethlahem I had my birth Dance Dance wherever you may be I am the lord of the dance said he And I lea...

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain I wish I was a youth again But a youth again I can never be Till apples grow on an ivy tree I left me father, I left me mother I left all my sisters and brothers too I left all my friends and my own religion I left them all for...

The night that I was married and in my married bed Up comes the bold sea captain and stands at my bed head Saying 'arise, arise, young wedded man and come along with me To the Lowlands of Holland for to fight the enemy' Oh, Holland is a lovely land and in...

The years have passed the winds have blown Since first I saw you there With feet apart to the music moved You're bright red curling hair The spotlight shone in colours bright Reflecting on your face The music notes so sweet and clear In the spirit of your race...

Come all you lads and lassies And listen to me a while I'll sing to you a verse or two That will surely make you smile Concerning a young man I'm going to tell you now Who has lately come a-courting The maid of the sweet brow nknowe This young man says: 'My p...

When Eve was in the garden , Adam climbed an apple tree, He went aloft up to the top, to see what he could see. He gazed in awe of what he saw, it made the poor man grieve. For Patrick John Maloney stood there, whispering to Eve... "Ah kiss me love, and miss m...

Many young man of twenty said goodbye All that long day From break of dawn until the sun was high Many young man of twenty said goodbye My boy Jimmy went that day On the big ship sailed away Sailed away and left me here to die Many young man of twenty said go...

O' eighteen sixty nine being the date and the year Those Waterloo sportsmen and more did appear For to gain the great prizes and bear them awa' Never counting on Ireland and Master McGrath On the twelfth of November, that day of renown McGrath and his ke...

There was a lord who lived in this town Who had a lovely handsome daughter She was courted by a fine young man Who was a servant to her father And when her parents came to know They swore they'd ban him from the island The maid she swore That her ehart would b...

As down the glen came McAlpine's men With their shovels slung behind them It was in the pub that they drank their sub Or down in the spike you'll find them We sweated blood and we washed down mud With quarts and pints of beer But now we're on the road again wi...

When I was eighteen years of age Into the army I did engage I left my home with a good intent For to join the forty-second regiment While I was posted on guard one day Some soldiers' children came out to play From the officers' quarters my captain came And he...

Oh come all ye late fellows that follows the gun Beware of night ramblin' by the setting of the sun. Beware of an accident as happened of late It was Molly Bawn Leary and sad was her fate. She'd been gone to her uncle's when a storm it came on She drew under...

Make way for the Molly Maguires They're drinkers, they're liars but they're men Make way for the Molly Maguires You'll never see the likes of them again Down the mines no sunlight shines Those pits they're black as hell In modest style they do their tim...

Alive alive oh alive alive ohh Crying cockles and mussels alive alive ohhh In Dublin's fair city where the girls are so pretty I once met a girl named sweet Molly Malone and she wheeled her wheel barrow through the streets broad and narrow Crying coc...

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

Fare thee well, ye Mormon Braes, for oft times A've been cheery. Fare thee well, ye Mormon Braes, for it's there A've lost ma dearie. As A went in by Strachen Toon A heard a fair maid mournin. She was makin sair complaint For her true love ne'er returnin. Fa...

Let the grasses grow and the waters flow in a free and easy way Just give me enough of the fine old stuff that's brewed near Galway Bay Come gougers all from Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim too We'll give them the slip and we'll take a sip of the rare old mountain...

With your toor-ri-ya fol da-diddle-ya Toor-ri toor-ri toor-ri-ya Now, Mrs. McGrath, Dr. Tierney did brag, Send your so up to college where he can study Ag He'll a Volkswagen car and a tener a week flat Mrs. McGrath wouldn't you like that With your toor-ri-ya...

In the days i went a courtin' i was never tired resortin' To an alehouse or a playhouse and many's the house beside But i told me brother seamus i'd go off and be right famous And i'd never would return again till i'd roam the world wide Goodbye muirsheen...

Come my little son And I will tell you what we'll do Undress yourself and get into bed And the tale I'll tell to you It's all about your daddy He's a man you seldom see For he's have to roam Far away from home Away from you and me refren: Remember laddie he's...

I'm a weaver, a Carlton Weaver I'm a a rash and a-roving blade I've got silver in my pockets And I follow the roving trade Whiskey, Whiskey, Nancy Whiskey Whiskey, Whiskey, Nancy-O As I went down through Glasgow city Nancy whiskey I chanced to smell I went i...

Oh, I am an old navvy and I work on the line And the last place I worked was Newcastle-on-Tyne Well, I'll tell me misfortune it happened in fun Oh, it happened one night I'd me navvy boots on One night after supper I shaved off me beard For to meet me fair El...

Oh well, poor aul' Admiral Nelson is no longer in the air On the eighth day of March, in Dublin city fair from his stand of stones and mortar he fell crashing through the quarter where once he stood so stiff and proud and rude! So let's sing our celebration as...

It's busk ye, me boy's, get you up on the deck And take up your stations for hauling the nets And mind up all together lads all through the night And shaking your oilskins until it's daylight With a heave and a haul and the shaking of nets It's when we're at...

Well an old man came courting me, hey ding-doorum dow An old man came courting me, me being young An old man came courting me, fain he would marry me Maids when you're young never wed an old man Because he's got no faloorum, faliddle aye oorum He's got no fal...

Oh the violets were scenting the woods, Nora Displaying their charm to the bee When I first said I loved only you, Nora And you said you loved only me The chestnut blooms gleamed through the glade, Nora A robin sang loud from a tree When I first said I loved...

For nearly sixty years, I've been a Cockie Of droughts and fires and floods I've lived through plenty This country's dust and mud have seen my tears and blood But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy I married a fine girl when I was twenty But she died in g...

I am a merry ploughboy and I ploughed the fields all day 'Till a sudden thought came to my head that I should roam away For I'm sick and tired of slavery since the day that I was born And I'm off to join the I.R.A. and I'm off tomorrow morn. Cho: And we're of...

Que vendo dos ojos negros, ¿Quién me los quieren comprar? Que los venden por embusteros, Porque me han pagados mal. A veces dan confianza, a veces me hacen dudar, a veces dan esperanza, y no sé cómo se acertar. Yo más quisiera, más te amo yo, y todas las noc...

When first I came to London In the year of thirty nine The city looked so wonderful And the girls were so divine But the coppers got suspicious And they soon gave me the knock I was charged with being the owner Of an old alarm clock Oh next morning d...

When apples still grow in November And blossoms still grow from each tree When leaves are Still green in December Its then that our land will be free I traveled her hills and her valleys And still through her sorrow I see A land that has never known freedom...

Oró, sé do bheatha abhaile, Oró, sé do bheatha abhaile, Oró, sé do bheatha abhaile Anois ar theacht an tsamhraidh. 'Sé do bheatha, a bhean ba léanmhar, do b' é ár gcreach tú bheith i ngéibheann, do dhúiche bhreá i seilbh méirleach, is tú díolta leis na...

In eighteen hundred and forty-one The corduroy breeches i put on Me corduroy breeches i put on To work upon the railway, the railway I'm weary of the railway Poor paddy works on the railway In eighteen hundred and forty-two From hartlepool i moved to crewe Fo...

Fareweel to a' our Scottish fame, Fareweel our ancient glory; Fareweel to e'en our Scottish name Sae fam'd in sang and story. Now Sark rins tae th' Solway sands, An' Tweed runs t' th' ocean.. Tae mark whaur England's Province stands: Sic a parcel of rogues in...

Come all ye young rebels, and list while I sing, For the love of one's country is a terrible thing. It banishes fear with the speed of a flame, And it makes us all part of the patriot game. My name is O'Hanlon, and I've just turned sixteen. My home is in...

Far and wide as the eye can wander, Heath and bog are everywhere. Not a bird sings out to cheer us. Oaks are standing gaunt and bare. We are the peat bog soldiers, Marching with our spades to the moor. We are the peat bog soldiers, Marching with our sp...

O Peggy Gordon, You are my darling Come sit you down upon my knee And tell to me the very reason Why I am slighted so by thee I am so deep in love that I can't deny it My heart lies smothered in my breast But it's not for you to let the whole world know it A...

Tá Peig agom, tá Cáit agom, ach Peig an bean is fearr 'Cbe faer Gheabhfas í nach air a bhfeás anttadh Ó ghuairm í 's guairim í go deo Sí grá mo chroí mo bhurnín í sí Peigín Leitirmór Tá iscaraigh na h'iarrthartha in greim an Ghotán mhoie Agus scríothim ais...

Have you heard of Phil the fluter, From the town of Ballymuck, The times was going hard for him, In fact the man was broke, So he sent an invitation, To his neighbours one and all, As how he'd like their cornpany, That evening at a ball. And when writing out,...

When she was only sixteen years A beauty she was wearing Ah little, little did she think That she`d be soon a-grievin` oh oh Refren: For the ploughboys lads are gay braw lads They`ll court you and deceive you Oh they`ll take all and they`ll gang awa` And...

Why spend your leisure, bereft of pleasure, amassing treasure, why scrap and save Why look so canny at every penny, you'll take no money within the grave Landlords and gentry with all their plenty, must still go empty where ere they're found So to my thinki...

Well the government's made a document To help prevent embarrassment And in the event of an accident Catching us with our trousers down It's no use to you when you're dead Nor even when alive And the name of this piece of paper is Protect and survive S...

Now Jack was a sailor who roamed on the town And she was a damsel who skipped up and down Said the damsel to Jack as she passed him by Would you care for to purchase some quare bungle rye roddy rye? Fol the diddle rye roddy rye roddy rye Thought Jack to...

On Raglan Road of an Autumn Day, I saw her first and knew That her dark hair would weave a snare That I might one day rue. I saw the danger, and I passed Along the enchanted way And I said let grief be a falling leaf At the dawning of the day. On Grafton Str...

Oh there's sober men & plenty And drunkards barely twenty There are men of over ninety That have never yet kissed a girl. But give me a rambling rover Fae Orkney down to Dover We will roam the country over And together we'll face the world. There'...

Raised on songs & stories, heroes of re-known The passing tales & glories that once was Dublin town The hallowed halls & houses, the haunting childrens' rhymes That once was Dublin city in the rare ould times Ring a ring a rosie, as the light decl...

O, rattlin, roarin Willie, O, he held to the fair, An for to sell his fiddle An buy some other ware; But parting wi' his fiddle, The saut tear blin't his e'e- And rattlin, roarin Willie, Ye're welcome hame to me. O Willie, come sell your fiddle, O, s...

And come tell me Sean O'Farrell, tell me why you hurry so Hush a buachaill, hush and listen and his cheeks were all aglow I bear orders from the captain, get you ready quick and soon For the pikes must be together at the rising of the moon At the rising of...

While in the merry month of May, from me home I started Left the girls of Tuam nearly brokenhearted Saluted father dear, kissed me darling mother Drank a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother Then off to reap the corn and leave where I was born Cut...

See the host of fleet foot men Who sped with faces wan. From farmstedt and from fishers cot Along the banks of Bann. They come with vengeance in their eyes, Too late, too late are they, For young Roddy McCorley goes to die On the bridge of Toome today Up the...

The moon was bright, the night was clear No breeze came over the sea When Mary left her highland home And wandered forth with me The flowers be-decked the mountainside And fragrance filled the vale But by far the sweetest flower there Was the Rose of Al...

Now I'm most depressed and sad where I once was blithe and glad, I could trip about the town both trim and neatly, I was happy night and morn but from all such joys I'm shorn, Since I fell so deep in love with Sally Wheatley. And it's oh dear me what...

Me husband's in Salonika, I wonder if he's dead I wonder if he knows he's got a kid with a foxy head So right away, so right away, So right away Salonika, right away me soldier boy Now when the war is over, what will the slackers do They'll be all around...

Oh my name it is Sam Hall chimney sweep, chimney sweep Oh my name it is Sam Hall chimney sweep Oh my name it is Sam Hall and I've robbed both great And small And my neck will pay for all when I die, when I die And my neck will pay for all when I die I have tw...

There's a withering child on the sands of Sudan His body's too weak to hold out his hand And beg for the bread that he might get today For the bird in the sky from the West's on its way He looks up with anguish and grieve in his face The first world is coming,...

Hark a marshall sound is heard The march of soldiers fife and drumming Eyes are start and hearts are stood For bold recruits the brave are coming Ribbons flaunting feathers gay The sound and sights are surely thrilling Dazzle village youths the day Who're prou...

School day's over come on then John, Time to be getting your pit boots on, On with your sark and moleskin trousers, AmTime you were on your way, Time you were learning the pit man's job, And earning the pit man's pay. Come on then Jim it's time to go, Time yo...

See the child With the golden hair yet eyes that show the emptiness inside Do we know Can we understand just how he feels or have we really tried See him now As he stands alone and watches children play a children's game Simple child He looks almost like the...

Oh See the host of fleet foot men who sped with faces wan. From farmstedt and from fishers cot along the banks of Bann. They come with vengence in their eyes, too late, too late are they, For young Roddy McCorly goes to die on the bridge of T oome today....

Some say that kissin's a sin But tell me how can that be true For kissing has been in this world Since the very first day there was two Now if it wasn't legal then the lawyers they would sue And the prisons would be full of folk who had a kiss or two An...

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

Oh father dear, I oft-times hear you speak of Erin's isle Her lofty hills, her valleys green, her mountains rude and wild They say she is a lovely land wherein a saint might dwell So why did you abandon her, the reason to me tell. Oh son, I loved my native lan...

Smith was a Bristol man and a rare old sort was he With his cutlass and his pistols, heave-ya ho He'd a noble crew of cut-throats who used to scour the sea A plunderin' and a robbin', high and low He swore 'twas no concern', he didn't give a herrin' Bout right...

Walking all the day By all towers where falcons build their nests In silver wings they fly, For they know the call for freedom in their breasts, We saw Black Head against the sky With craggy rocks that run down to the sea When living on your western shore, Saw...

In South Australia I was born To me heave away, haul away In South Australia round Cape Horn Chorus We're bound for South Australia Haul away you rolling kings To me heave away, haul away Haul away, you'll hear me sing We're bound for South Australia...

Last night as I lay dreaming of pleasant days gone by My mind being bent on rambling to Ireland I did fly I stepped on board a vision and I followed with a will Till next I came to anchor at the cross of Spancil Hill It being on the 23rd of June, the day befo...

As I came down through Dublin City, at the hour of twelve at night, Who should I spy, but a Spanish Lady Washing her feet by the candlelight First she washed them,then she dried them Over a fire of amber coals In all me life I ne'er did see, a maid so sweet ab...

In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia Down in the dark of the Cumberland Mine There's blood on the coal and the miners lie In roads that never saw sun nor sky. In the town of Springhill, you don't sleep easy Often the earth will tremble and roll When...

In the Village of Kildoran lived a maiden young and fair Her eyes, they shone like diamonds, she had long and golden hair, the countryman came riding up to her daddy`s gate, mounted on a milk-white stallion, he came at the stroke of eight Step it out Mary, my...

O'Sullivan John to the road you're gone, far away from your native land, You've gon with the tinker's daughter far along the road to roam, O'Sullivan John you wont stick it long till your belly will soon be slack, As you roam the road with a mighty loa...

I met my girl at Woolwich pier. Beneath a big crane standin'. And all the love I felt for her. It passed all understandin'. Took her sailin' on the river. Flow, sweet river, flow. Londontown was mine to give her. Sweet Thames, flow softly. Made the Thames in...

Tá 'n coileach a' fógairt an lae Tá 'n coileach a' fógairt an lae Tá an mhuc ag a' ndoras A d'iarraidh é oscailt Tá 'n coileach a' fógairt an lae Tá 'n coileach a' fógairt an lae Tá 'n coileach a' fógairt an lae Tá 'n chearc is a hál Ina gcodladh go sámh Tá '...

Take it down from the mast, Irish mtraitors, The flag we Republicans claim. It can never belong to Free Staters. You brought on it nothing but shame. Then leave it to those who are willin' To uphold it in war or in peace. The men who intended to kill it, Until...

Here's to the Ronnie, the voice we adore Like coals from a coal bucket scraping the floor Sing out his praises in music and malt And if you're not Irish, that isn't your fault Raise up our voices like dogs in a pack Thankful for honest men we never lack We go...

You can sing of all your sport'n hero's Like Mr. (McGranderas) But there's a horse in the county of Wicklow That's beaten all of the best The slowest humper, the lowest jumper The great for a straw 'round the park The servant lasses, the upper classes And dau...

The night been dark and very cold A woman took pity on a poor old soul She took pity on a poor old soul And she asked him to come in [refren:] Wid me too roo roo roo rentum high Me too roo roo roo rentum high Too roo roo roo rentum high And it's time for the...

By Clyde's bonnie banks as I sadly did wander among the pit heaps as evening grew nigh. I spied a young maiden all dressed in deep mourning a weeping and wailing with many a sigh. I stepped up beside her and this I adressed her "Pray, tell me fair maid of...

Oh, the trees are growing tall and the nights are growing dim And many a night and day has passed since you and I have seen Oh I will make my bed And I lie in the cold, cold lane Oh me bonny boy is young, but he's growing Oh father, dearest father, and you've...

The Captains And The Kings I remember in September when the final stumps were drawn And the shouts of crowds now silent when the boisterous cheer had gone Let us O Lord above us remember simple things When all are dead to love us, Oh, the captains and the Kin...

O a comical genius was thinking one day How he'd jack up his job and receive handy pay He did not like begging and work was too hard So he got a bright notion to join up the guard Diddly-i-dum diidly-i-dum diddly-i-dum dum day Well he went up to Dublin, to th...

Oh the crack was ninety in the Isle of Man Well weren't we the rare oul stock Spent the evenin' gettin' locked In the Ace O' Hearts where the high stools were engaging Over the Butte Bridge, down by the dock, The boat she sailed at five o'clock. 'Ah hurry...

It was early, early in the spring The birds did whistle and sweetly sing, Changing their notes from tree to tree And the song they sang was Old Ireland free. It was early early in the night, The yeoman cavalry gave me a fright; The yeoman cavalry was my downf...

The balalaika rings silent from Minsk to Red Square The cortege assembles to bury the bear Nadia Rostropovich looks on in despair With Irina, Catharina and Olga And quietly remembering her brother Ivan Shot in the back in Afghanistan The Stalinist purges, the...

Well you've heard about the Indians with their tommyhawks and spears And of the U.N. warriors the heroes of recent years Also I might mention the British Grenadiers Well none of them were in it but the Dublin Fusiliers. You've heard about the Light Brigade and...

Oh I am a roving sporting blade, they call me Jack of all Trades I always place my chief delight in courting pretty fair maids. So when to Dublin I arrived to try for a situation I always heard them say it was the pride of all the Nation. On George's Quay I f...

Oh I am a Dundee weaver and I come fray' bonny Dundee I met a Glasgy' fairlay and teachin' courting me He took me ou' to walking dun by the Calvin Ha' And there the Dundee be rascal sto' I thinkin' me jig awa' There the Dundee be rascal sto' Me thinkin' me jig...

Oh the little boats are gone from the breast of Anna Liffey The ferrymen are stranded on the quay Sure the Dublin docks are dying and a way of life is gone And Molly it was part of you and me Where the strawberry beds sweep down to the Liffey You kiss away th...

By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling Michael they have taken you away, For you stole Trevelyan's corn So the young might see the morn, Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay Low lie, the Fields of Athenry Where once we watched the small fr...

As down the glen one Easter morn To a city fair rode I There Armed lines of marching men In squadrons passed me by No fife did hum nor battle drum Did sound it's dread tattoo But the Angelus bell o'er the Liffey swell Rang out through the foggy dew R...

At Oranmore in the county Galway One pleasant evening in the month's of May I spied a damsel; she was young and handsome Her beauty fairly took my breath away She worn no jewels, nor costly diamonds No paint nor powder, no none at all But she worn a bonnet wi...

Sleep oh babe for the red bee hums the silent twilights fall Aoibheal from the grey rock comes to wrap the world in thrall A lyan van o my child my joy my love and heart's desire The crickets sing you lullabys beside the dying fire Dusk is drawn and the g...

In Glendalough lived an old saint Renowned for learning and piety His manners was curious and quint And he looked upon girl with disparity fol di dol fol di fol day fol di dol rol di dol ad dy fol di dol rol di dol day fol di dol rol di dol ad dy He was fon...

Fare thee well my lovely Dinah, A thousand times adieu For we’re going away from the Holy Ground, And the girls we all love true We will sail the salt seas over, And then return for shore To see again the girls we love, And the holy Ground once more FI...

Fare thee well Enniskillen, fare thee well for a while And all around the borders of Erin's green isle And when the war is over we'll return in full bloom And we'll all welcome home the Enniskillen Dragoons A beautiful damsel of fame and renown A gentleman's...

The Clíona, the Meabh and the Mucha The pride of the Irish navy When the Captain he blows on his whistle All the sailors go home for their tea While the army is off in the Kongo In Cyprus or some foreign parts Our navy is strained to the limits Deploying its...

On the Fourth of July, 1806 We set sail from the sweet Cobh of Cork We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks For the Grand City Hall in New York 'Twas a wonderful craft She was rigged fore and aft And oh, how the wild wind drove her She stood severa...

How hard is my fortune, how vain my repining. The strong rope of fate for my young neck is twining. My strength is departed, my cheeks sunk and sallow While I languish in chains in the jail of Cluan Meala. No boy in the village was ever yet milder. I could pl...

One morning in March I was diggin' the land With me brogues on me feet and me spade in me hand And says I to myself, such a pity to see Such a fine strappin' lad footin' turf round Tralee Wid me toora na nye And me toora na nye Wid me toora na noo ra na Noo r...

The lark in the morning she rises off her nest She goes home in the evening with the dew all on her breast And like the jolly ploughboy she whistles and she sings She goes home in the evening with the dew all on her wings Oh, Roger the ploughboy he is a d...

My soul has been torn from me and I am bleeding My heart it has been rent and I am crying All the beauty around me fades and I am screaming I am the last of the great whales and I am dying Last night I heard the cry of my last companion The roar of the h...

It's a lesson too late for the learnin' Made of sand, made of sand In the wink of an eye my soul is turnin' In your hand, in your hand Are you goin' away with no word of farewell? Will there be not a trace left behind I could have loved you better Didn't mea...

Farewell to Princes' landing stage River Mersey fare thee well I am bound for California, a place I know right well So fare thee well my own true love When I return united we will be It's not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me But my darling when I t...

Remember December of fifty-nine The howling wind and driving rain Remember the gallant men who drowned On the lifeboat, Mona was her name The wind did blow and the sea rose up Beat the land with mighty waves At Saint Andrew's Bay the light ship fought The sea...

Oh, the first of me downfall I set out the door I straight made me way on for Carrick-on-Suir Going out by Rathronan 'twas late in the night Going out the West Gate for to view the gaslight Radley fal the diddle ay Radley fal the diddle airo I went to the tow...

I've been over Snowdon, I've slept upon Crowdon I've camped by the Waynestones as well I've sunbathed on Kinder, been burned to a cinder And many more things I can tell My rucksack has oft been me pillow The heather has oft been me bed And sooner than part fro...

Somebody's under the bed Whoever can it be? I feel so very nervous I call for Joanee Joanee lights the candle But there's nobody there Hey! Hi! Diddeleedai And out goes she Skipping rope still turning Children at their play In and out of Clarendon S...

In Newry Town I was bred and born In Steven's Green now I'll die in scorn. I served my time to the saddling trade But I turned out to be, I turned out to be a roving blade. At seventeen I took a wife I loved her dearly as I love life And for to keep both fine...

I must away now; I can no longer tarry, this morning's Tempest, I have to cross. I must be guided without a stumble, into the arms I love The most. And when he came to his true love's dwelling, he knelt Down gently, upon a stone. And through her window, he's...

As I went a walking one morning in May I met a young couple so far did we stray And one was a young maid so sweet and so fair And the other was a soldier and a brave Grenadier And they kissed so sweet and comforting As they clung to each other They wen...

In the County Tyrone, near the town of Dungannon, Where many the ructions meself had a hand in. Bob Williamson lived, a weaver by trade, And all of us thought him a stout Orange blade, On the Twelfth of July as it yearly did come, Bob played with his flute to...

A hungry feeling Came o'er me stealing And the mice were squeeling In my prison cell To begin the morning The screw bawling "Get up out of bed, boy! And Clean up your cell!" And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle All along the banks of the Royal...

My father was an Ulster man, Proud Protestant was he. My mother was a Catholic girl, From County Cork was She. They were married in Two churches, Lived happily enough, Until the day that I was born And things Got rather tough. Oh, it is the biggest mix-up Tha...

Of all the money that e'er I had I spent it in good company And of all the harm that ever I've done Alas it was to none but me And all I've done for want of wit To memory now I can't recall So fill to me the parting glass Good night and joy be with you...

May the Lord upon high who rules the sky Look down on our pubs and bars And the women and men all seated within Neglecting their pints and their jars The crack it is bad, the atmosphere sad Every man has a face like a mule For all he can do is to grab an old c...

Come listen to me for a while Me good friends one and all And I'll sing to you a verse or two About a famous ball Now the ball was given by some friends Who lived down Ashe Street In a certain house in the Liberties Where the ragmen used to meet Well...

well ,in the merry month of May from me home I started, Left the girls of Tuam wonderly broken hearted, Saluted father dear, kissed me darling mother, Drank a pint of beer, me grief and tears to smother, Then off to reap the corn, leave where I was born,...

Some say love It is a river That drowns the tender reed Some say love It is a razor That leaves the soul to bleed Some say love It is a hunger An endless aching need But I say love It is a flower And you - it's only seed It's the heart Afraid of breaking That...

They say that the lakes of Killarney are fair That no stream like the Liffey can ever compare, If its water you want, you'll find nothing more rare Than the stuff they make down by the ocean. Refren: The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide* Long may...

Dear Sir, I write this note to you to tell you of me plight and at the time of writing, I am not a pretty sight; me body is all black and blue, me face a deathly gray and I write this note to say why Paddy's not at work today. While working on the fourtee...

There's a sweet garden spot in our memory It's the place we were born and reared It's long years ago since we left it But return there we will if we're spared Our friends and companions of childhood Would assemble each night near a score Round Dan Murphy's sho...

The sun is burning in the sky Strands of clouds go slowly drifting by In the park the lazy bees Are droning in the flowers, among the trees And the sun burns in the sky Now the sun is in the West Little kids go home to take their rest And the couples in the pa...

In my memory I will always see the town that I have loved so well where our school played ball by the gasyard wall and we laughed through the smoke and the smell. Going home in the rain running up the dark lane past the jail and down behind the fountain Those...

I am a freeborn man of the travelling people Got no fixed abode, with nomads I am numbered Country lanes and byways were always my ways I never fancied being lumbered Oh I knew the woods and the resting places And the small birds sang when winterdays were ove...

Come listen to my story 'Tis about a nice young man When the Militia wasn't wantin' He dealt in hawkin' twang He loved a lovely maiden As fair as any midge An' she kept a traycle depot Wan side of the Carlisle bridge Another man came a courtin' her And hi...

The Wind doth blow today my love, A few small drops the rain. Never have i had but one true love, In cold clay she is lain. I'll do as much for my true love, As any young man may. I'll sit and mourn all on her grave, A twelve month and a day. The twelve mont...

For Fun and Diversion we have met together, I tell you from Waterford hither we came, We crossed the Big Ocean in dark stormy weather, Our pockets were light and our Hearts were the same, Sad at leaving Old Ireland we're once more on dry land, By the roadside...

Well, there was an old woman from Wexford and in Wexford she did well She loved her old man dearly but another one twice as well [Refren:] With me tiggery tiggery toram and me toram toram ta Ah one day she went to a doctor, some medicine for to find She said...

The old ways are changing you cannot deny The day of the traveler is over There's nowhere to go and there's nowhere to bide So farewell to the life of the rover Refren: Goodbye to the tent and the old caravan To the tinker, the gypsy, the traveling man And go...

There were three lovely lasses from Kimmage, From Kimmage, from Kimmage, from Kimmage And whenever there with a bit of a scrimmage Sure I was the toughest of all Sure I was the toughest of all. Well the cause of the row is Joe Cashin Joe Cashin, Joe Cas...

And it's three score and ten boys and men Were lost from Grimsby Town From Yarmouth down to Scarborough Many hundreds more were drowned Their herring craft and their trawlers Their fishing smacks as well Alone they fight the bitter night And battle with the sw...

O will to go wi' ne sweet Tibby Dunbar O will to go wi' ne sweet Tibby Dunbar With a ride on the horse or been drown in a cart Or walk by my side sweet Tibby Dunbar I care that they daddy, his land or his money I pal and I kin say high and say lowly But say T...

Com all ye tramps an the hawkers lads An gaitherers o blaw That tramps the contrie rownd an rownd Com lissen an an a' A'll tell tae ye a rovin tale O sites that A hae seen It's far intae the snawy north An sooth bi Greetna Green Aft tyms A've laufd i...

Come all you gallant poachers, That ramble void of care, That walk out on a moonlight night With your dog, your gun and snare. The harmless hare and pheasant You have at your command, Not thinkin' of your last career Upon Van Dieman's land. And she gave us al...

Around the time I saw the light of morning A comradeship of heroes was laid From every corner of the world came sailing The Fifty International Brigade. They came to stand beside the Spanish people To try and stem the rising fascist tide Franco's allies were...

And there was an old woman and she lived in the woods A weila weila waila There was an old woman and she lived in the woods Down by the River Saile She had a baby three months old A weila weila waila She had a baby three months old Down by the River Saile Sh...

I'll sing you a song of peace and love, Whack fol the diddle all the di do day. To the land that reigns all lands above. Whack fol the diddle all the di do day. May peace and plenty be her share Who kept our homes from want and care, God bless Mother England...

Which way will the branch bend When there's no wind left to blow Which way will the river run When there's no where left to go What do we tell the children When they start to ask us why And where are the keepers Who bled the whole thing dry What kind of air a...

I always will remember well the day we went away, Sailing out of Dublin in the morning, Our hopes were on tomorrow as we kissed the girls farewell, And our dreams were on the day of our returning. There'll be dancin', romancin', and never more we'll roam, T...

As I was a goin' over the far famed Kerry mountains I met with captain Farrell and his money he was counting I first produced my pistol and I then produced my rapier Saying "Stand and deliver" for he were a bold deceiver Ref: Mush-a ring dum-a do dum-a da Wac...

He sits at the corner of Begger's Bush Astride of an old packing crate And the dolls at the end of the plank were dancing As he crooned with a smile on his face: "La da da... Come day, go day Wish in me heart it was Sunday Drinking buttermilk all the week, An...

I've been a wild rover for many a 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. Ref: And it's no, nay, never, No nay never no more, Will I play the wild rover...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ I was standing by my window, On one dark and cloudy day When I saw that hearse come rolling For to carry my mother away Will the circle be unbroken By and by, lord, by and by There's a better home a-waiting In the sky, lord, in the sky ~...

Will you come to the bower o'er the free boundless ocean Where stupendous waves roll in thundering motion Where the mermaids are seen and the wild tempest gather To loved Erin the green, the dear land of our fathers Will you come, will you, will you, will you...

Come all you young fellows and listen to my song It`s all about a young man, and he did a great wrong His name was Willie Gannon and he lived down in Bray Well he killed a policeman and the law made him pay The law watched young Gannon, each turn that he made...

It's a working man I am, and I've been down under ground And I swear to God if I ever see the sun Or for any lenght of time, I can hold it in my mind I never again will go down underground At the age of sixteen years, he quarreled with the peers Who vowed th...

Thunder and lightning is no lark When Dublin City is in the dark So if you've any money, go up to the park And view the Zoological Gardens We went out there to see the zoo We saw the lion and the kangaroo There was he-males and she-males of every hue U...