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Darby O'Leary - The Dubliners

"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 was hungry and tired and me spirits where low

For I got neither whiskey nor water

The dirty ould miser he mounted his stead

To the Gull Belly mountains he road in great speed

I followed behind till my poor feet did bleed

When we stopped when his old horse was weary

When we came to his cottage I entered it first

It seems like a kennel or ruined old church

Says I to myself I am left in the lurch

In the house of old Darby O'Leary

I well recollected was mickle must night

To a hearty good supper he did me invite

A cup of sour milk that was more green than white

And it gave me the threatened disorder

The wet oul potatoes would poison the cats

And the barn where me bed was with sworn with rats

The fleas would have frightened the fearless Saint Pat'

Who banished the snake o'er the border

He worked me by day and he worked me by night

While he held an old candle to give me some light

I wished these potatoes would die of the blight

Or himself would go off with the fairies

'TWas on this old miser I looked with a frown

When the straw was brought in for to make me shake down

And I wished that I'd never seen him nor his town

Nor the sky over Darby O'Leary

I've worked in Kilconnal I've worked in Kilmore

I've worked in Knockannie and Shanbalamore

And Pallas and Nigger and Salahatmore

With farmers so decent and cheery

I've worked in Tipperary the rag in Rossgreen

At the mount of Kilfacel the bridge of Aleen

Such woe-full starvation I never yet seen

As I got from ould Darby O'Leary"