The Pogues

One summer evening drunk to hell I stood there nearly lifeless An old man in the corner sang "Where The Water Lilies Grow" And on the jukebox Johnny sang About a thing called love And it's how are you kid and what's your name And how would you bloody kn...

I've been loving you a long time Down all the years, down all the days And I've cried for all your troubles Smiled at your funny little ways We watched our friends grow up together And we saw them as they fell Some of them fell into Heaven Some of them...

Voici une histoire D'un homme cajun Amadie adouin Etat son nom Avec sa guitare Et avec sa voix Amadie adouin Etait le roi Here is the story Of a cajun man Amadie adouin Was his name With his guitar And his voice Amadie adouin Was the king In a town seperated...

The dawn shines her light To scare off the night And the sun from his slumber is woken The bells are ringing out As the town crier shouts Words too strong to be spoken There's a rumble in the ground And the air fills with sound Trumpets in the wind are a' blo...

In the big city Where the lights are low Cold dirty ground Where the rivers don't flow Nothing's gonna change so throw it all away In the big city Where the kids will come cheap And monsters prowl and never sleep Don't cross the road if you haven't got the ti...

Billy ran around with the rare old crew And he knew an arsenal from tottenham blue We'd be a darn sight better of if we knew Where billy's bones are resting now Billy saw a copper and he hit him in the knee And he took him down from six foot to five foot three...

Alligators snap at your ankles And branches snap at your brain If I ever get through this swamp alive I'll nevermore pray for rain This must be the place, and still Somehow it don't seem right That something in the moon Could change these endless days To lone...

I met with napper tandy And I shook him by the hand He said "hold me up for chrissake For I can hardly stand" The most disgraceful journey On which I've ever been The last time that I travelled on The boat train I had a couple of drinks in town A few more at...

The cadillac stood by the house And the yanks they were within And the tinker boys they hissed advice 'Hot-wire her with a pin' We turned and shook as we had a look In the room where the dead men lay So big Jim Dwyer made his last trip To the shores whe...

Thanks and praises Thanks to Jesus I bet on the Bottle of Smoke I went to hell And to the races To bet on the Bottle of Smoke The day being clear The sky being bright He came up on the left Like a streak of light Like a drunken fuck On a Saturday n...

On the first day of March it was raining It was raining worse than anything that I have ever seen I drank ten pints of beer and I cursed all the people there And I wish that all this raining would stop falling down on me And it's lend me ten pounds, I'll...

The bright lights are calling me The bright lights are calling me When the world is dark and cold And I'm heading down the road The bright lights are calling me As the world is round, the road is long I've trouble on my mind I'll just keep on moving Until the...

Now the party's over And the money's all gone You remember feeling like Jesus' son Your girl has left your side And now you're gonna get crucified They're gonna crucify you Crucify you Crucify you Crucify you In those old cotton fields back home Too late to...

I've seen those signs a million times The chill that clouds your eyes The light that shines black as a coal Deep down in the mind And I'm hungry, and I'm dying of thirst Just suffering from a lover's curse I'll turn to stone, let the rivers flow, And wash me t...

I like to walk in the summer breeze Down Dalling Road by the dead old trees And drink with my friends In the Hammersmith Broadway Dear dirty delightful old drunken old days Then the winter came down and I loved it so dearly The pubs and the bookies wher...

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...

Christy brown a clown around town Now he's a man of renown from dingle to down I type with me toes Suck stout through me nose And where it's gonna end God only knows Down all the days The tap-tap-tapping Of the typewriter pays The gentle rattling Of the drays...

Hello boys I've been away on a bit of a holiday To the land where the rivers freely flow And the cattle roam on the wild callagh Walking home three parts pissed I fell and rolled in the morning mist I fell and tumbled in the hungry grass That tells the tale of...

The wind was whipping shingle through the windows in the town A hail of stones across the roof, the slates came raining down A blade of light upon the spit came sweeping through the roar With me head inise a barrel and me leg screwed in the floor Mother pack...

In search of a good life the Pilgrims set sail Then all through the new land they blazed their brave trails The iron horse speeding down freshly-laid rails Brought settlers determined to prosper From the far corners they made it their home The ities and...

Down on a dead end street Cold dawn, feeling beat Tryin' to make sense of it all Sun rose, burning red, Visions spinning in my head I thought I saw a shooting star fall These eyes were blind Now I found what I've been looking for Down on a dead end st...

It was Christmas Eve babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me, won't see another one And then he sang a song The Rare Old Mountain Dew I turned my face away And dreamed about you Got on a lucky one Came in eighteen to one I've got a feeling This year's fo...

I am Francisco Vázquez García I am welcome to Almería We have sin gas and con leche We have fiesta and feria We have the song of the Chochona We have brandy and half corona And leonardo and his accordione And kalamari and macaroni Come all you rambling boys o...

I recall the moment Before it slipped away When 5 green queens On a black bin bag Meant all the world to me And I recall the moment More distant than it seems When 5 green queens On a black bin bag Meant all the world to me And I recall the moment...

4 o'clock in the morning When the ambulance arrived 4 o'clock in the morning When the ambulance arrived The blue lights were flashing As they lay my baby down inside They took her to the hospital In the darkest hour of the night They took her to the hospital...

(Traditional) As I went down to Galway Town To seek for recreation On the seventeenth of August Me mind being elevated There were passengers assembled With their tickets at the station And me eyes began to dazzle And they off to see the races With m...

The boys from the village were festering sore For a day on the rant with some music and more They'd drink porter in maura's way over in fore And never get drunk but stay sober There was harry the banjo and dunne of the swan With whose bone from the wing...

Sometimes it seems like a beautiful dream The girl from the wadi hammamat Lovely as a green parakeet I awake alone again In the desert of my dreams A fertile oasis I have seen I cast my voice to the burning winds Across the dunes khamsin khamsin Bring...

In eighteen hundred and forty-six And of march the eighteenth day, We hoisted our colors to the top of the mast And for greenland sailed away, brave boys, And for greenland sailed away. The lookout in the crosstrees stood With spyglass in his hand; There's a...

Do you remember that sunny day? Somewhere in London In the middle of nowhere Didn't have nothing to do that day Didn't wanna do nothing anyway You got a way of walking You got a way of talking And there's something about you And now I know I never eve...

Sit down on that stool hear the can't of a fool And a strange tale I'll impart to ye Of a time that I lived at the buff of a hill 'Neath the burial chambers you see One Saturday night I got up on my bike To go to a dance in the town I set off at seven to be t...

Life's a bitch, then you die Black hell Hell's ditch - naked howling freedom The killer's hands are bound with chains At six o'clock it starts to rain He'll never see the dawn again Our lady of the flowers Genet's feeling ramon's dick The guy in the bunk abo...

I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in memphis, She tried to take me upstairs for a ride. She had to heave me right across her shoulder, Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind. It's the honky tonk women, That gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues....

Finally found a place they could never reach. Sipping singha beer on Pattaya Beach. Singha beer don't ask no questions, Singha beer don't tell no lies. Singha beer don't ask no questions, Singha beer don't tell no lies. There's a guy next to me won't tell me...

How come when I got the ace of hearts Ya always draw the ace of spades How's it when your best friend Brings you lillies on your birthday Hey how come, hey how come Well I ain't superstitious, but well these things I see How come, how come I ain't a su...

I just want to see you,when your all alone. I just want to cath you,if I can I just want to be there when the morning light explodes on your face it raidiats I can't escape I love you 'till the end. I just want to tell you nothing You don't want to hea...

Oh my name is Jock Stewart, I'm a canny gun man And a roving young fellow I've been So be easy and free when you're drinking with me I'm a man you don't meet every day I have acres of land, I have men at command I have always a shilling to spare So be easy an...

If I should fall from grace with god Where no doctor can relieve me If I'm buried 'neath the sod But the angels won't receive me Let me go boys Let me go boys Let me go down in the mud Where the rivers all run dry This land was always ours Was the proud land...

Now I'd like to tell you what your smile was for And I loved you from the moment that you walked in that door And I knew that I'd seen you before Some other time Some other place Some other time Some other place Now I'd like to tell you 'bout yo...

On the Fourth of July, 1806 We set sail from the sweet cove 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 several...

They wear green And they are beautiful And their hearts are filled with love They're as pure as any lily And as gentle as the dove They'll sing and cheer in harmony Till their throats are cracked & sore But there is no doubt You'll hear them shout When Jac...

Jesse James we understand Has killed many a man He robbed the Union trains He stole from the rich and gave to the poor He'd a hand and a heart and a brain Now Jesse had a wife Lived a lady all her life And children they were brave But history does record That...

I'm an American, boys, and I've come a long way, Born and bred in the USA So listen up close, I've got something to say Boys, I'm buying this round Well it took a little while, but we're in this fight And we ain't going home 'til we've done what's right...

As Dorothy Parker once said to her boy friend, "Fare thee well," As Columbus announced when he knew he was bounced, "It was swell, Isabelle, swell," As Abelard said to Heloise, "Don't forget to drop a line to me, please," As Juliet cried in her Romeo's e...

Oh Kitty, My Darling, remember That the doom will be mine if I stay 'Tis far better to part, though it's hard to Than to rot in their prison away 'Tis far better to part, though it's hard to Than to rot in their prison away So softly he kissed her pale lips '...

There was Pearse and McGee, and Brown, he made three ,in chains they crossed the seas, In Australia they stood, and as bold comrades would, they made their own plans to leave, To the bush they'd go, cross the hills they'd roam, with the birds and trees, Far...

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

My girl could break my heart And tear my soul apart, but i Couldn't see myself living in a world Without her She's a tear, she's a scream Takes me high, but my worst dream Could I survive living in a world Without her As my mother said open the door I didn't...

The devil moon took me through the alley Down by the kardomah and the centrale To the mews running through the backstreets Where the blacks sold fire and sleep The devil moon took me out of soho Up to camden where the cold north winds blow Sucked along by a wi...

Ah london you're a lady Laid out before my eyes Your heart of gold it pulses Between your scarred up thighs Your eyes are full of sadness Red busses skirt your hem Your head-dress is a ring of lights But I would not follow them Your architects were madmen Your...

As I wondered down the long lonesome highway I meet other people on the way The broken hearted lovers who've been left along the by-way Living by night and hiding from the day The people I meet as I go on my way They all have a story to tell How they onc...

Ignacio lay dying in the sand A single red rose clutched in a dying hand The women wept to see their hero die And the big black birds gathered in the sky Mother of all our joys, mother of all our sorrows Intercede with him tonight For all of our tomorrows Th...

You told me tales of love and glory Same old sad songs, same old story The sirens sing no lullaby And no-one knows but lorelei By castles out of fairytales Timbers shivered where once there sailed The lovesick men who caught her eye And no-one knew but lorelei...

As I walked down by the riverside One evening in the spring Heard a long gone song From days gone by Blown in on the great north wind Though there is no lonesome corncrake's cry Of sorrow and delight You can hear the cars And the shouts from bars And...

[Recruiting Sergeant] As I was walking down the road A feeling fine and larky oh A recruiting sergeant came up to me Says he, you'd look fine in khaki oh For the King he is in need of men Come read this proclamation oh A life in Flanders for you then...

Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today. Madam, Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today. She is sorry to be delayed, but last night down in Lover's Lane she strayed, Madam, Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today. When she woke up and...

I dreamt we were standing By the banks of the thames Where the cold grey waters ripple In the misty morning light Held a match to your cigarette Watched the smoke curl in the mist Your eyes, blue as the ocean between us Smiling at me I awoke alone and lonely...

Mary's selling flowers On a stall in ec1 Tonight she'll be out looking for some fun Her mate gerry's in the basement He hasn't got a home But prides himself that he's got most things done Meanwhile I'm up on the roof Waiting for the sun to shine I haven't got...

It was 1962 and I was Two years out of school When I got on board a boat That was bound for Liverpool The day we sailed away I remember it so well Took one look at the North Wall And bid a fond farewell It's a hard thing to leave the land Of your childhood To...

In the days when I was courtin', I was seldom done resortin' In the ale house and the playhouse, And many's the house between I told me brother Seamus, I'll go off and get right famous, And when I come back home again, I'll have seen the whole wide world And i...

You got to weep You got to wail You got to drag yourself on hands and knees bleeding Another mile along the trail You got to laugh in the face of the devil When he's hanging on to your shirt tail You got to hold down the lid of the coffin And hammer in the las...

The canals and the bridges, the embankments and cuts, They blasted and dug with their sweat and their guts They never drank water but whiskey by pints And the shanty towns rang with their songs and their fights. Navigator, navigator rise up and be strong The...

Across the dark and dusty plain Where scars of old dry rivers run Night unfolds, a coal black shroud Across the hard and stony ground Distant stars shining bright In the cavern of the night All is still and silence screams To the thunder of the lorca train F...

It was 1962 I was two years out of school When I got on board a boat That was bound for Liverpool The day I went away I remember it so well Said goodbye to the North Wall And bid a fond farewell When I got down to the smoke It was 1963 I got a job d...

The hour's late and the lights are low I'm walking home just kicking stones I waited at the deopt you never showed You missed the last bus hours ago I remember the first time I saw you on the street You looked so pretty my heart skipped a beat I can't wait any...

The night stank of diesel And a stranger came to town A cold wind blowing And the rain pouring down Street lights flicker And the power lines moan The moon beat down On a river of bone Someone put the lights out No one make a sound You won't find a thing Down...

I'm walking down roppongi The night is hot and smoggy I drink a little coffee A sake and a beer I run into a ginja man He speaks but I don't understand He grins at me and takes my hand And whispers in my ear I play deji pachi I play deji pachi I play deji pac...

The City of Light is dimmed now by the winter, No gut full of wine could keep out this frost We'll shiver and sigh by the ice on the river Ask the dull heavens, "The hell have we lost?" My heart's too empty to speak true of sorrow What's dust is but dust...

Below the Pont Mirabeau Slow flows the Seine And all out loves together Must I recall again Joy would always follow After pain Hands holding hands Let us stand face to face While underneath the bridge Of our arms entwined slow race Eternal gazes flowing At wa...

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...

The church bell rings An old drunk sings A young girl hocks her wedding ring Down on rain street Down the alley the icewagon flew Picked up a stiff that was turning blue The local kids were sniffin' glue Not much else for a kid to do Down rain street Father...

Life turns Time changes Lost dreams Moon changes Now bush Now city Eora home No city Irish loss Same dream Vinegar hill No rhyme See the judas man in red All live in rainbow's dread Write out No call No home No all Eyes wide No steed Feel dread No creed R...

I'll be with them asleep and dreaming I'll be there when they wake with screaming At the hour of death then I will nurse them To have a moment more to curse them Watch the maggots crawl out of them Hear the angels call above them Watch them as the cold a...

(Traditional) As I was walking down the road A feeling fine and larky oh A recruiting sergeant came up to me Says he, you'd look fine in khaki oh For the King he is in need of men Come read this proclamation oh A life in Flanders for you then Would be...

Well Jimmy played harmonica in the pub where I was born He played it from the night time to the peaceful early morn He soothed the souls of psychos and the men who had the horn And they all looked very happy in the morning Now Jimmy didn't like his place...

Ok, it's time for sayonara So long yankee break my heart Now there's nothing left but sorrow Even the best friends they must part I walked into the nearest bar I sat and gazed across the sea I wandered lonely on the beach The waves just whispered miser...

Dear dirty london in the pouring rain I wish to God I was back on the sea again Though that belongs to the world of never will be There was never a wilder bastard than me on the sea I could fuck all the whores in damnation me boys Though they wriggled and holl...

Sit down by the fire And I'll tell you a story To send you away to your bed Of the things you hear creeping When everyone's sleeping And you wish you were out here instead It isn't the mice in the wall It isn't the wind in the well Every night they ma...

Well it's been a long day but I don't like to moan It's the middle of summer and I'm chilled to the bone There's holes in my shoes where the rain comes in I'm sitting on top of the world Walking in the shadows of empty office blocks I was talking to a strange...

O-we-o-o Six to go O-we-o-o Never gonna let go O-we-o-o Nothing new O-we-o-o Don't believe it's true O-we-o-o On a sunday O-we-o-o All because of london O-we-o-o Hear the song O-we-o-o Right the wrong O-we-o-o O-we-o-o O-we-o-o O-we-o-o...

I close the door and turn the key And dream a world for you and me Beyond the walls a city breathes In this room one heart beats The stars they shine for you and me On the street ten floors below The city lights are all aglow The corner girls they come and go...

The Shaman came a calling He was howling at the moon He offered me a vision On the end of a silver spoon He said he'd give me dreams That all were in his powers If only I would follow him The universe was ours Walked a thin white line to the coffin cl...

In South Australia I was born Heave away, Haul away In South Australia 'round Cape Horn We're bound for South Australia Haul away your rolling king Heave away, Haul away Haul away oh hear me sing We're bound for South Australia As I walked out one mo...

Last night as I slept I dreamt I met with Behan I shook him by the hand and we passed the time of day When questioned on his views On the crux of life's philosophies He had but these few clear and simple words to say I am going, I am going Any which way the w...

Oh farewell you streets of sorrow And farewell you streets of pain I'll not return to feel more sorrow Nor to see more young men slain Through the last six years I've lived through terror And in the darkened streets the pain Oh how I long to find some so...

When it's summer in siam And the moon is full of rainbows When it's summer in siam And we go through many changes When it's summer in siam Then all I really know Is that I truly am In the summer in siam 

A hungry feeling Came o'er me stealing And the mice were squeeling In my prison cell And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle All along the banks of the royal canal Oh! to start the morning The warden bawling "get up out of bed, you! and clean out your cell!...

When I was a young man I carried my pack And I lived the free life of a rover From the Murrays green basin to the dusty outback I waltzed my Matilda all over Then in nineteen fifteen my country said Son It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be...

Oh Lord won't you tell me I'm sure I don't know, Who makes the plans that change our lives so, From a place in the country so peaceful and calm, We moved up to London as the bombs fell around, To a house by the river where the rent it was cheap, The Landlord h...

The last time I saw you was down at the greeks There was whiskey on sunday and tears on our cheeks You sang me a song as pure as the breeze Blowing up the road to glenaveigh I sat for a while at the cross at finnoe Where young lovers would meet when the flower...

It's of a gentleman soldier As sentry he did stand He saluted a fair maiden By a waiving of his hand So then he boldly kissed her And he passed it off as a joke He drilled her up in the sentry box Wrapped up in a soldier's cloke And the drums are going a rap...

You gotta walk that mile Honeychild You gotta walk that mile Honeychild Well I'll show you what is hip As we walk down Leeson strip & I'll do it for the ghost of a smile Just the ghost, the ghost of a smile Just the ghost, the ghost of a smile You...

Fare thee well to you, my own true love, There were many fare thee wells I am bound for California, A place that I know right well So fare thee well, my own true love, For when I return, united we will be It's not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves m...

When I first came to London I was only sixteen With a fiver in my pocket and my ole dancing bag I went down to the dilly to check out the scene But I soon ended up upon the old main drag There the he-males and the she-males paraded in style And the old m...

Of all the money e'er I had I've spent it in good company And all the harm I've ever 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 all Oh,...

Let grasses grow and waters flow In a free and easy way, But give me enough of the rare old stuff That's made near Galway Bay, Come gangers all from Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim too, Oh, we'll give the slip and we'll take a sip Of the rare old mountain de...

McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head There's devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands You need one more drop of poison and you'll dream of foreign lands When y...

Near to Banbridge Town, in the County Down One morning last July Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen And she smiled as she passed me by She looked so sweet from her two bare feet To the sheen of her nut-brown hair Such a coaxing elf, sure I shook myself F...

They snakes they can crawl And the cheetahs they can bawl And their ghosts can wait for the hereafter But if you are so proud As to say that's not allowed We will get sick and choke ourselves with laughter And the girlfriends that you knew To whom you promise...

Seen the carnival at rome Had the women I had the booze All I can remember now Is little kids without no shoes So I saw that train And I got on it With a heartful of hate And a lust for vomit Now I'm walking on the sunnyside of the street Stepped over bodies...

The guests are stood in silence They stare and drink their wine On the wall the canvas hangs Frozen there in time They marvel at the beauty The horror and despair At the wake of the medusa No one she'd a tear Sit my friends and listen Put your glasses down Si...

The island it is silent now But the ghosts still haunt the waves And the torch lights up a famished man Who fortune could not save Did you work upon the railroad Did you rid the streets of crime Were your dollars from the white house Were they from the...

The night is dark, the moon is full Across the blood red plain Every step and every breath Brings me nearer home The spirits watch me on my way They whisper on the wind And when the dawn lights up the sky I'll see my land again A hot wind blows the scrub and...

Tosspint rises early Sprung from a nightmare's claw Thrice crows the dawn cock The mist is on the moor Tosspint cries from croaking gills Thank God I'm not forsaken From the hellish depths of sleep At last I am awaken Tosspint flushed his kidneys And rained a...

The sun slips through the broken blinds Through the dusty panes And casts a shadow across the bed Where you and I once lay Your perfume lingers though you've gone My poor ol' heart will break I'm lonesome as the whistle On the evening train The jukeb...

In the rosy parks of england We'll sit and have a drink Of vp wine and cider 'til we can hardly think And we'll go where the spirits take us To heaven or to hell And kick up bloody murder in the town we love so well Going transmetropolitan From the dear old s...

Too many sad days Too many tuesday mornings I thought of you today I wished it was yesterday morning I thought of you today I dreamt you were dressed in mourning But I knew that you With your heart beating And your eyes shining Would be dreaming of...

I come old friend from Hell tonight Across the rotting sea Nor the nails of the cross Nor the blood of Christ Can bring you help this eve The dead have come to claim a debt from thee They stand outside your door Four score and three Did you keep a watch for th...

When I was young I watched the cars When I was older I drank in bars When I was young I chewed the leaves When I was older I drank with thieves I found a love She gave me dreams She left me drunk In new orleans So cold and lonely So all alone I wished my heart...

Says my aul' wan to your aul' wan "will ye go to the waxies dargle? " Says your aul' wan to my aul' wan, "i haven't got a farthing. I went up to monto town To see uncle mcardle But he wouldn't give me a half a crown For to go to the waxies dargle." What will...

Oh the time will come up When the winds will stop And the breeze will cease to be breathin' Like the stillness in the wind 'fore the hurricane begins The hour when the ship comes in Oh the seas will split And the ship will hit And the sands on the shoreline w...

Sometimes I wonder who's making love to you now Now that it's been so long Yes sometimes I wonder who's making love to you now Now that it's been so long Well I don't know where or when you found out Where that love's been gone Remember that winter we went wa...

As I was going over the far famed Kerry mountains, I met with Captain Farrell and his money he was count'n. I first produced me pistol, and then produced me rapier, Saying stand and deliver for you are the bold deceiver. Musha rig um du rum da Whack fol the d...

Now brave boys, we're on the march off to Portugal and Spain Drums are beating, banners flying the Devil at home will come tonight so it's go, fare thee well with a too da loo ra loo ra doo de da a too ra loo ra loo ra doo de da me rikes fall too ra laddie-o t...

Here a tower shinning bright Once stood gleaming in the night Where now there's just the rubble In the hole here the paddies and the frogs Came to gamble on the dogs Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago Oh the torn up ticket stubs From a hundred thousand m...

Someone said romance is dead But I'm afraid that I don't agree If you've a heart of lead And a hole in your head You're so blind that you can't see There's a fire burns As the world turns Lights up our dreams Who else said romance is dead? Come take a...

I've been a wild rover for many a year, And I've spent all me money on whiskey and beer But now I'm returning with gold in great store, And I promise to play the wild rover no more And it's no, nay, never! No nay never no more Will I play the wild rover? No ne...

The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out The ones that go in are lean and thin The ones that come out are fat and stout Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out Your brains come tumbling out of your snout Be merry, my friends, be merry 

I love you baby since we were at school I didn't show it I was a fool You were burning I was cold as ice And baby now I realize Oh yeah Yeah yeah yeah yeah (yeah yeah yeah yeah) Yeah yeah yeah yeah (yeah yeah yeah yeah) Yeah yeah yeah yeah (yeah yeah y...

Have you ever walked the lonesome hills And heard the curlews cry Or seen the raven black as night Upon a windswept sky To walk the purple heather And hear the westwind cry To know that's where the rapparee must die Since Cromwell pushed us westward T...