Irish Rover Lyrics

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 a 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 pone.
We had three million bales of old nanny goats' tails,

We had four million barrels of bone.
We had five million hogs,
And six million dogs,
Seven million barrels of porter.
We had eight million sides of poor blind horses' hides
In the hold of the Irish Rover.

We had sailed seven years when the mizzens broke out
And the ship lost her way in the fog.
And that whale of a crew was reduced down to two.
Twas meself and the captain's old dog.
Well, the ship struck a rock, and 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.

The Clancy Brothers - Wrap the Green Flag: Favorites of the Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem

Feb 1994

1. Paddy West
2. Heave Away My Johnny
3. Bold Tenant Farmer
4. Fare Thee Well Enniskillen
5. The Bold Fenian Man
6. Jenifer Gentle
7. New South Wales
8. Wrap The Green Flag 'Round Me Boys
9. Johnson's Motor Car
10. Valley Of Knockanure
11. A Nation Once Again
12. The Rising Of The Moon
13. Galway Races
14. Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye
15. Irish Rover