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The Irish Rover - The Clancy Brothers Tommy Makem

And the year of our lord eighteen hundred and six

We set sail from the port quay of cork

We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks

For the grand city hall in new york

We'd a near-leaking craft she was rigged fore

And aft and how the trade winds drove her

She had twenty-three masts and she stood several blasts

And they called her the irish rover and

There was bobby mcgee from the banks of the leith

There was hogan from county tyrone there was john

D mcgirk who was scared stiff of work and a chap from westmeath

Named malone there was slugger o'toole who was drunk as a rule

And fighting bill tracy from dover and your man mick mccann from the banks

Of the bann was the skipper of the irish rover

We had one million bags of the best sligo rags

We had two million barrels of bone

We had three million bales of old nanny goats' tails

We had four million barrels of stone

We had five million hogs and six million dogs seven million

Barrels of porter we had eight million sides of old blind horses' hides

In the hold of the irish rover we had sailed seven years

When the measles broke out and the ship lost her way in the fog

And the whale of the crew was reduced down to two 'twas meself

And the captain's old dog then the ship hit a rock oh lord

What a shock I nearly tumbled over turned nine times around

And the poor old dog was drowned I'm the last of the irish rover